Liberal Arts Guild

Mission Statement	Explanation of the Curriculum	Certificate in the Liberal Arts
Program Objectives	Liberal Arts Scholar Curriculum	Liberal Arts Minor (LIBA)

Mission Statement:

The Liberal Arts Guild at LeTourneau University seeks to create a community of Christian men and women dedicated to building and renewing cultures that glorify God and seek to reconcile the world to Him, guided by a rigorous, sequential, and well-crafted curriculum.

Program Objectives:

Challenge students to take every thought captive to Christ by giving them the foundations they need to read scripture and understand culture on a whole new level.
Promote integrated humanities courses that create an immersive and life-forming experience for students through story, image, and sound.
Foster an appreciation of learning and culture as valuable in themselves while also preparing students for the workplace.
Expose students to other cultures and orient them with respect to their own.
Encourage a craftsmanship mentality among students in all of their endeavors that enables them to build a culture of life wherever they find themselves.
Create a vibrant community formed by these experiences and values.

Explanation of the Curriculum:

The Liberal Arts Scholars Program builds upon, structures, and expands existing General Education requirements for the Guild’s student cohorts by creating special courses that fulfill these requirements using a special methodology. The first two years are the most intense and are organized around two broad themes: World Cultures (A-years) and American Culture (B-years). The cornerstone of these themed years are the integrated history and literature courses that are designed to work together synchronically. These courses emphasize the reading of primary source texts and purposefully reflect upon issues of technology and society. Students must enroll in the history and literature classes simultaneously.

Full Liberal Arts Scholar Curriculum (Aligned with Existing Gen. Ed. Requirements)

Foundations of the Craft (15 hours)
Gen Ed		Humanities Guild Requirements	Hours
ENGL 1013*		ENGL 1113: Close Reading in a Digital Age	3
ENGL 1023		ENGL 1123: Rhetoric and the Craft of Research	3
Oral Comm		COMM 1213: Speech, Debate, and the Art of Conversation	3
		PHIL 2113: Logic* or PHIL 2013: Introduction to Philosophy	3
		PHIL/POLS 3313: Political Philosophy and Civil Discourse	3
The Integrated Culture Experience (24 hours) (All courses below require concurrent enrollment because they are carefully coordinated. Courses emphasize reading and discussion of primary texts. They also feature a Fine Arts component.)
	The Ancient and Medieval Experience	The Modern World Experience	The Early American Experience	The Modern American Experience
Civic Engagement	HIST 2233: Ancient and Medieval History	HIST 2243: Origins of the Modern World	HIST 2133: Early American History	HIST 2143: Modern American History
Humanity & Fine Art	ENGL 3503: Great Literature: Ancient and Medieval	ENGL 3553: Great Literature: Renaissance and Modern	ENGL 3103: Early American Literature	ENGL 3133: American Literature after the Civil War
Additional Gen Ed
		BA (20 hours)	BS (12 hours)
LETU 1101		LETU 1101	LETU 1101
Science Elective		Science Elective - 4 hours	Science Elective - 8 hours
Mathematics		Mathematics - 3 hours	Mathematics - 8 hours
Foreign Language		Foreign Language - 12 hours
Total Hours		59 hours	51 hours

*May be transferred. Permits dual credit student enrollment.

Certificate in the Liberal Arts (Selective Participation in the Program)

Foundations of the Craft (12 hours)
Gen Ed	Humanities Guild Requirements		Hours
ENGL 1013*		ENGL 1113: Close Reading in a Digital Age	3
ENGL 1023		ENGL 1123: Rhetoric and the Craft of Research	3
Oral Comm		COMM 1213: Speech, Debate, and the Art of Conversation	3
Humanity & Fine Arts		PHIL 2113: Logic* or PHIL 2013: Introduction to Philosophy or PHIL/POLS 3313: Political Philosophy and Civil Discourse	3
The Integrated Culture Experience (Choose 1 - 6 hours) (All courses below require concurrent enrollment because they are carefully coordinated. Courses emphasize reading and discussion of primary texts. They also feature a Fine Arts component.)
	The Ancient and Medieval Experience	The Modern World Experience	The Early American Experience	The Modern American Experience
Civic Engagement	HIST 2233: Ancient and Medieval History	HIST 2243: Origins of the Modern World	HIST 2133: Early American History	HIST 2143: Modern American History
Humanity & Fine Arts	ENGL 3503: Great Literature: Ancient and Medieval	ENGL 3553: Great Literature: Renaissance and Modern	ENGL 3103: Early American Literature	ENGL 3133: American Literature after the Civil War
Additional Gen Ed
		BA (26 hours)	BS (15 hours)
LETU 1101		LETU 1101	LETU 1101
Science Elective		Science Elective - 4 hours	Science Elective - 8 hours
Mathematics		Mathematics - 3 hours	Mathematics - 3 hours
Foreign Language		Foreign Language - 12 hours
Civic Engagement		Civic Engagement - 3 hours	Civic Engagement - 3 hours
Humanity & Fine Arts		Humanity & Fine Arts - 3 hours
Total hours		44 hours	33 hours

Liberal Arts Minor

Liberal Arts Minor (LIBA)