Liberal Studies Vancouver Island University

Overview

This unique liberal arts Liberal Studies program from Vancouver Island University is taught in small seminars where students engage in and become experts in critical thinking, communication and how to creatively adapt to new challenges, skills that are of high importance and carry over well to future careers and graduate school.

Graduates have gone on to a range of careers in law, architecture, public administration, education, marine archaeology and communications.

The Liberal Studies Difference 

Liberal Studies offers a significant alternative to traditional degrees in a single discipline. It draws its rich content from the humanities, arts and sciences, and treats it in a way which brings out the connections between different disciplines. Courses are team taught by professors from a wide range of academic backgrounds, who form with students a community intent on maximizing the learning of all. In participatory seminars students develop skills in communication and critical thinking so prized in graduate school and in the professions of tomorrow.

What is Liberal Studies?

• A critical and creative exploration of important issues raised by the most influential works of Western culture.

• A vibrant learning community of students and professors, who investigate together alternative conceptions of the universe and our place in it.

• A forum for active learning which does not rely on the work of so-called experts, but challenges students to develop their own understanding.

• An examination of current realities against the fascinating backdrop of the last three thousand years.

• Education of the whole person, through the promotion of crucial skills in communication (oral and written), teamwork, self-reliance, critical analysis and creative expression - skills at a premium in today's workplace.