UMD's Liberal Education Program

The Liberal Education Program is the overall framework around which all UMD baccalaureate degree programs are designed. While depth is achieved through requirements for majors and minors, breadth is achieved by exposure to disciplined inquiry in the Liberal Education Program's ten categories of knowledge.

In addition to providing breadth of knowledge, the Liberal Education Program encourages critical and creative thinking, develops speaking and writing skills, provides practice in analytical study methods, examines basic values, encourages active citizenship and social responsibility, and provides awareness of historical traditions, intellectual and artistic endeavors, global issues and concerns in today's world, and diverse cultural values in the United States.

Candidates for any UMD baccalaureate degree must complete the lower division Liberal Education Program.

Link to Additional Information on the Web

Liberal Education Program http://www.d.umn.edu/catalogs/current/lib_ed.html
Transferable skills http://careers.d.umn.edu/cs_handbook/cshandbook_transferable.html