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The aim of a liberal arts education — to free you to pursue your own path — is the guiding principle behind Wooster’s academic program.

Your journey begins with First-Year Seminar, a writing-intensive course that will exercise your intellect and sharpen your critical faculties. In a class of no more than 15 students, with a professor who’s also your academic adviser, you’ll approach a wide range of texts, questioning and analyzing them to tease out meaning, and then formulating arguments through extensive writing and discussion.

To ensure that you’re conversant with forms of inquiry and discourse in a range of disciplines, you’ll select courses in each of three areas: arts and humanities, history and social sciences, and mathematical and natural sciences. You’ll also gain insight into other cultures through a course in global and cultural perspectives, and another in religious perspectives.

Once you select a major, you’ll engage with the scholarship of that field, master its particular methodologies, and prepare to participate in the creation of knowledge yourself. You’ll find numerous opportunities to work with faculty on research projects (as early as the second semester of your first year), participate in internships, or study abroad.

It all culminates in your senior Independent Study (I.S.) project. Working one-on-one with a faculty adviser over the course of a year, you’ll conduct research, create art, or shape a performance that demonstrates your understanding of a discipline and your ability to communicate that knowledge to others.

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