Humanities for Leadership
The Bachelor of Arts in Humanities for Leadership offers students an explicitly interdisciplinary approach to ethical and intellectual formation. The four-year curriculum focuses on the individual as an efficacious, ethical leader, competent to act in culturally diverse situations. Students enter the Humanities for Leadership degree in a freshman cohort and plan both a local internship in sophomore year and a 15-credit international internship in senior year. The degree offers an education in the Humanities that helps students recognize new needs, new resources, new imperatives, and new opportunities of helping, especially the poor and marginalized. A four-year, successive series of courses in processes of discernment prepares graduates to make choices that can lead to a deeper sense of personal freedom, human authenticity, and global responsibility.
The Humanities in Leadership degree is a pre-professional degree. In addition to the required courses, students fulfill an “area of specialization” that can include, but is not limited to, business, science, the social sciences, engineering, pre-med, pre-law, etc. It prepares graduates to successfully navigate work and world, and prepares them to be efficacious, adaptable, ethical leaders in whatever professional fields they enter.
Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. – Lao Tzu