Liberal Learning at the College of New Jersey

The Theme for 2011 - 2012 is

The Pursuit of Innovation

Community Learning Day, October 5th

Artie Isaac Speaks on Creativity, Kendall Auditorium, 12:00 Noon

See the Schedule of Events for the Year

Important Information and Announcements:

To submit a course for liberal learning consideration please select this link:

Course Approval Process

If you wish to indicate a strong interest in an Interdisciplinary Concentration, please select this link:

Interdisciplinary Concentrations Form Genie

Information on WRI 102, ordinarily taken during the Spring semester:

For information on whether you need to register for WRI 102, click here.

For the CICPC Program Funding Proposal form.

TCNJ's redesigned curriculum means fewer, more intensive courses and more options for interdisciplinary study. This approach is central to the College's goal: to provide the best public undergraduate educational experience in the nation. The College's Liberal Learning program helps ensure that students learn fundamentals of reasoning, communicating, and living in today's world. The College of New Jersey aims to educate students for citizenship in a modern democracy.

Proceeding from the College's mission and its "Guiding Principles for Academic Work," liberal learning has three interdependent structural elements:

Intellectual and Scholarly Growth

The first sparks intellectual and scholarly growth characterized by students' increasing ability to pose intellectually challenging questions, confront significant problems, and apply focused rigor in seeking promising resolutions. This element ensures that learners gain habits of mind necessary to study and understand human knowledge and how it applies to complex problems.

Civic Responsibility

The second element enables students to relate beliefs, values, and intellectual habits to their civic role in society. Such vision requires deep understandings of ways race, ethnicity, and gender have shaped local and global communities.

Human Inquiry

The third element fosters familiarity with essential knowledge about broad sectors of human inquiry. Such familiarity enables students to be conversant in the broad range of intellectual discourse.