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Arts & Humanities
The Babson College Liberal Arts curriculum provides an inclusive and engrossing educational experience.
Courses in the Arts & Humanities Division explore how literary, philosophical, visual, and other artistic expression creates culture, imagines community, and explores the human condition. Students are challenged to cultivate ethical structures for interrogating the world, understanding choices, and making decisions. Through the study of formal, aesthetic concerns, students also explore how the arts inspire joy while educating and enriching us. Our talented and diverse faculty represents a range of disciplines in art history, creative writing, ethnomusicology, film studies, literature, philosophy, and studio art.
Head over to Babson's curriculum page to learn more about the Liberal Arts and Sciences place and be inspired by how past and present students have used our courses in the liberal arts and sciences to help open doors.
[The] liberal arts courses at Babson College... give us an understanding of different aspects of life, such as music, literature, performance arts, and photography. I can say, I feel my cultural perspective has broadened thanks to this course.
The Core Curriculum
The liberal arts and sciences curriculum is designed not only to help make Babson students better business leaders, but also holistic and well-rounded citizens of the world.
Students engage in a three-level (Foundation, Intermediate, and Advanced) course of study designed by the Arts & Humanities and History & Society divisions. This innovative program helps our students acquire frameworks for understanding complex aesthetic, ethical, cultural, and historical issues, and the abilities to explore and communicate critically about them. Our dedication to the liberal arts demonstrates our commitment to educating the whole person and our conviction that the abilities developed in our program are invaluable to the business professional.
Required 4 credits – 1000 Level
Babson’s foundation courses in the liberal arts and sciences establish essential skills and intellectual standards for a student’s development throughout their four years at Babson. The foundation courses focus on building communication and critical thinking skills that are applicable to professional and other endeavors.
- Writing Across Contexts (WRT 1001)
- Foundations of Critical Inquiry (FCI 1000)*
- Natural Science and Technology (NST 10XX) course requirement* - taught by Faculty in the MAST division
General Credit
Courses for General Credit fall outside the liberal arts required program. These include courses in the fine and performing arts and elementary level language courses.
Required 12 credits – 2000 Level
At the Intermediate Level, the themes, issues, and questions that were introduced and explored at the Foundation Level are now elaborated and subjected to distinct modes of analytical inquiry. Students become familiar with a number of different disciplinary frameworks and learn how the competencies introduced at the Foundation Level are made manifest in disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowing. This study enhances students’ abilities to do close readings of texts and other sources, and to identify patterns and make refined distinctions and connections within the subject matter, all features of the analytical process.
- Socio-Ecological Systems (SES 2000)*
- Research Writing (WRT 2000)
- Predictive Business Analytics (AQM 2000) - taught by Faculty in the MAST division
- History and Society (HSS 20XX)*
- Literature and the Arts (LTA 20XX)*
- Cultural Studies and Philosophy (CSP 20XX)*
General Credit
Courses for General Credit fall outside the liberal arts required program. These include courses in the fine and performing arts and elementary level language courses.
Required 4 credits – 4600 Level
The Advanced Liberal Arts courses are the capstone of the three-level Liberal Arts curriculum and completes the Liberal Arts requirement. Advanced Level courses challenge students to think with increased confidence, independence, and creativity about the material. They will be expected to synthesize or apply disciplinary approaches and to express their own views in creative ways. For example, they may be asked to bring their own contributions to class, to lead class discussions, to write independent critical research essays, or to carry out creative projects.
- Advanced Liberal Arts Course (46XX)*
- 3 Advanced Liberal Arts Electives*
- Advanced Experiential Course*
General Credit
Courses for General Credit fall outside the liberal arts required program. These include courses in the fine and performing arts and elementary level language courses.