Money, culture, and the way the world works are becoming ever more connected, which makes it important for students to learn a wide range of ways of understanding the world. A LaGuardia Liberal Arts and Sciences education balances all of these different ways of knowing to give students the preparation they need for success in this fast-changing, interdependent society, not only at work, but in everyday life.

LaGuardia supports Liberal Arts students as they prepare to transfer to senior colleges, and also prepares them for a broad range of careers. These different classes and approaches allow students to have a strong base when making career choices.  This program is ideal for students to learn, and then take what they’ve learned and apply it to today’s workplace, as well as to the future.

Liberal Arts students at LaGuardia begin with an introductory cluster—a group of classes arranged around a theme and taught by a group of professors who work together to plan them. This allows students to make connections between the different approaches in different academic disciplines. Students finish their study at LaGuardia with a capstone course, Humanism, Science, and Technology, that lets students show off what they have learned in all of their requirements and electives, and prepares them for upper-level courses.  All along, students are asked to think, read, and write about diversity, and work side-by-side with students from all over the world.  They develop important skills in oral communication, reading, writing, quantitative reasoning and critical thinking.  They also learn how to find and use information in their own work.

Students are also required to take Cooperative Education Internships, which help students understand how their class work can apply to their careers.  A liberal arts and sciences education provides a firm foundation for productive, responsible citizenship in the world today.

—Adapted from the LaGuardia Liberal Arts and Sciences Program Mission Statement by students in ENG212: Feature Writing for Newspapers and Magazines, Spring I, 2006.

Alan Ovalle
Nicholas Karasoulis
Glenda Palma
Guillermo Briceno
Alexandria Greyer
Brooks Fraser
Jennifer Peña
Hiraku Moriya
Camilo Sala
Jane Hwang
Yesenia Rodriguez
Professor Kevin Lerner