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Course Requirements
Career and life are not separate
experiences. Kettering demonstrates
this throughout its curriculum. We do
not sideline the non-technical courses
by encouraging students to “get them
out of the way” early. Liberal Studies
courses are integrated into Kettering’s
unique professional program.
Students must take eight liberal
studies courses (32 credits). Four
are broad, introductory courses
and are taken in the first two years
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Liberal Studies Provides the
Understanding and Skills Expected
of Well-Educated Professionals.
Kettering is best known for providing students with
outstanding professional preparation and a deep
understanding of specialized fields. This outstanding
education would not be complete without exploration
in Liberal Studies. A broad exposure to liberal studies
encourages personal development, inquiry into socially
responsible citizenship and an appreciation for how
one’s professional expertise serves the larger world.
Kettering’s Liberal Studies courses emphasize critical
thinking, effective communication and the examination
of ethical issues. They help students to sharpen their
abilities to reason well and to act effectively and
responsibly. Our program is structured to complement
a student’s major with courses in humanities, social
throughout their years here.
sciences, communication, economics and leadership
These courses encourage students to think critically and
independently, develop persuasive arguments, use social
scientific methods to identify organizational problems and
solutions, inquire into literature, philosophy and art for
lessons in character and social responsibility and more.
For more information, please contact the Department of
Liberal Studies at 800-955-4464 ext. 7827 or visit
www.kettering.edu.
of college. These courses focus Finally, students participate
on communication, economics, in “Senior Seminar: Leadership,
humanities and social sciences. Ethics and Contemporary Issues.”
The remaining four courses This demanding course requires
are taken in the junior and the skills developed through the
senior years. An upper division rigorous reading, discussion and
communication course develops writing assignments of prior courses.
advanced professional and technical Students explore and debate current
communication skills. Students then ethical issues in corporate and civic
choose an upper division humanities leadership as well as the social
elective and an upper division social contexts of leadership and ethical
science elective from a variety of dilemmas, drawing on their own
choices offered by faculty members experiential learning as well as vital
who are experts in their fields. contemporary case studies.
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