UMD Liberal Education

Overview

• Category Description and Criteria
• Fall 2012 Options
• Pre-fall 2012 Options
• Liberal Education Core

Registration & Advising

• Find Your Advisor
• Transfer Students
• Top Skills Employers Seek

Resources

• Task Force Report
• Research
• CASL Lib Ed Learning Outcomes

Opportunities

• Coming Together
• IDS Support
• Course Redesign (Coming Soon)

Contact UMD Liberal Education:

Molly Harney
137 EduE
412 Library Drive
Duluth, MN 55812

218-726-6778

libed@d.umn.edu

Liberal Education:

Marketing
Alexandra Luong, Chair
Janny Walker
Pam Spencer
Bill Payne
Eric Musselman

Pedagogy
Bruce Reeves, Chair
Dan Glisczinski

Writing Across the Curriculum
Michael Pfau, Chair
Maureen Tobin-Stanley
Jerry Pepper
Avesa Rockwell

The Mission of Liberal Education at UMD

A liberal education prepares individuals to lead productive and socially responsible lives in a diverse and rapidly changing world. Liberal education at UMD helps students develop competencies that can be adapted for use in any occupation and by virtually any individual. Liberal education at UMD is not restricted to any particular part of the curriculum but is woven through each student’s course of study, including core requirements and requirements for the major.

Liberally educated students are “Prepared, Informed, and Committed.”

Prepared:

• To identify, analyze and solve problems, demonstrating critical and analytical thinking competency within and across various fields of knowledge
• To think creatively, demonstrating intellectual curiosity, imagination and flexibility
• To communicate effectively through writing and speaking
• To work productively independently and through collaboration
• To access, evaluate, and make use of information gathered through multiple methodologies

Informed:

• About the foundations of knowledge and inquiry about nature, culture and society
• About the past and its relevance to the present and the future
• About controversies and unanswered questions in multiple domains of knowledge

Committed:

• To life-long learning
• To civic engagement and social responsibility
• To knowledge and competence across cultures
• To considering ethical implications of ideas and actions
• To understanding contemporary global issues

In summary, the new liberal education program provides the campus an opportunity to re-think how to better deliver and integrate liberal education throughout a student’s educational experience with the goal of improved student learning.