NHA Launches New Report: Attracting Students to the Liberal Arts Through Integrative Curricula

The National Humanities Alliance (NHA) launches their new report, Attracting Students to the Liberal Arts Through Integrative Curricula, which illustrates how undergraduate courses and programs that integrate the humanities, social sciences, and/or natural sciences with applied approaches and pre-professional training help to demonstrate the value of a broad-based education to skeptical students.

The report consists of 12 in-depth case studies and 20 brief profiles of initiatives that combine learning from disparate fields of study to demonstrate the value of a broad-based liberal arts curriculum. These case studies and profiles are organized into the following sections: (1) integrative approaches to general education; (2) integrative degree programs, which are subdivided into problem-oriented and profession-oriented models; and (3) integrative infrastructure that supports cross-disciplinary learning.

By providing detailed accounts of how faculty and administrators built integrative initiatives that have succeeded in attracting students, the report aims to foster the proliferation of integrative curricula that demonstrate the value of the liberal arts.