Mission & Goals
The Liberal Studies Program in the College of Arts and Sciences has received
a generous gift from C. E. and S. Foundation of Louisville. The gift provides
funds for the next five years to support a new interdisciplinary project. The
mission of the proposed project is to enrich intellectual life and academic
curriculum of the College of Arts and Sciences, and to link traditionally
self-contained fields of scholarship with interdisciplinary approaches. The new
Liberal Studies project aims to serve students and faculty of the University of
Louisville as well as the community in large.
Among the major objectives
of the new project are to establish a series of interdisciplinary courses taught
by University of Louisville faculty in collaboration with distinguished visiting
professors, to bring guest speakers to our campus through a single lecture or
workshops while introducing the most recent and pioneering ideas, and to provide
scholarships to outstanding Honors and Liberal Studies students in their Junior
or Senior years.
Each year the program plans to bring up to six
outstanding visiting professors to our campus, three in the fall semester and
three in the spring semester. These distinguished visitors may be professors at
other institutions, professionals associated with important innovations in their
fields, outstanding achievers in interdisciplinary studies, or creative
artists.