The route to liberal education lies in a course of study that combines both breadth and depth. The Lawrence curriculum promotes exposure to a wide range of subject matters and intellectual approaches. It also calls for the focused study of a single area of knowledge. Within this general framework, you exercise wide latitude in building a course of study. A Lawrence education, then, results from considered choices. The college provides ample room for such choices and encourages students to exercise them boldly.
Students come to Lawrence with many career objectives and options -- law, public service, health professions, business, service vocations, engineering, teaching, ministry. Liberal education is a prerequisite to all of these and more. Whether or not you seek professional or graduate training beyond the bachelor's degree, liberal learning provides the skills, the talents, the critical intelligence, and the range that offer access to many careers.