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School of Liberal Arts

The School of Liberal Arts reflects the central educational values and commitments of Marist College and of the disciplines of the liberal arts. Through their dedication to the Core/Liberal Studies program, an important component of the divisional curriculum, Liberal Arts faculty provide leadership in support of the aspiration of our institution to blend career preparation with a liberal arts education and, thus, they play a crucial role in shaping the educational experience of every student who attends Marist College.

The hallmarks of the Liberal Arts curricula are interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary. While striving to prepare students to become reflective, critical, and engaged citizens, the faculty of the Liberal Arts seek to transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries while respecting the integrity of each discipline. Focusing on the unity and integration of knowledge, they address issues from diverse viewpoints and create synergistic teaching opportunities with each other, as well as between the Liberal Arts and the wider Marist community, that lead students to develop breadth as well as depth.

The faculty of the School of Liberal Arts is committed to the cultivation of the teacher/scholar, recognizing that legitimate scholarship is not confined to a single focus and that teaching excellence embraces innovative and technologically advanced forms of instruction in a variety of settings. They acknowledge the internationalization of our nation's interests and concerns and endeavor to ensure that our students develop global perspectives and appreciation of foreign cultures, beginning with richness and changing composition of American culture. Finally, faculty investigate new ways to illuminate the problems and questions of life, heightening student awareness of the moral and ethical implications of human existence, and helping them to connect what takes place in the classroom to their own lives.

GOALS:

• To prepare students for a productive life by helping them develop the skills of critical analysis, reflection, effective communication, and information literacy.
• To foster in students an understanding and appreciation of intellectual, aesthetic, and professional creativity.
• To enhance student's learning and intellectual development through the use of technological resources.
• To lead students to become informed, responsible, and motivated and to maximize their capacity to interpret events and processes as well as to help shape them.
• To ground students in their own historical experience and to help them develop ways to analyze issues that challenge them as citizens.
• To guide students to confront issues of social responsibility, human rights, and dignity and to prepare them to support and promote social justice.