Welcome Mike Beals Vice Dean for Undergraduate Education Professor of Mathematics beals@sas.rutgers.edu Susan Lawrence Dean for Educational Initiatives and the Core Curriculum Associate Professor of Political Science slawrence@sas.rutgers.edu

The School of Arts and Sciences Discover Your Academic Path the value of a liberal arts and sciences education and how it prepares you for a future of rapid change

What do we know about the future? Predictions about what careers will be most in demand and will provide the most financial security are notoriously wrong. The single biggest source of happiness in the workplace is the feeling that you are making progress in meaningful work. A college education with any liberal arts and sciences major results in significantly higher life-time earnings and a lower chance of unemployment. Careers that require math and science majors often pay more, but only for those that enjoy and are good at math and science. Failing a course and pursuing a major you are not well-suited for is the surest way to slow your progress toward graduation and raise the cost of your degree. … – not getting one. College still provides a higher rate on return – by a lot – than the stock market, housing, bonds, or any other investment vehicle.

Study after study shows employers care most about: The majority of employers do not care what you majored in, and even if they do care, they will also want a cross-cutting set of skills, capabilities, and qualities. Study after study shows employers care most about: Oral and written communication and interpersonal skills Quantitative literacy Critical thinking skills Problem solving skills Creative thinking skills Ability to continuously identify, acquire, and use new information and skills. Technological proficiency, hard-working, responsible, and ethical

You will develop and refine all of these skills at the School of Arts and Sciences while exploring what meaningful work is for you.

Core Curriculum

The innovative new SAS Core Curriculum establishes common goals that, along with a major and minor specialization, prepare SAS graduates for successful lives and careers built on a critical understanding of natural environment, human behavior, and the individual’s role in diverse societies. The distinctive SAS Core Curriculum cultivates and nurtures curiosity by emphasizing the process of inquiry and the creation of knowledge through debate, research, and scholarship.

The SAS Core is based on overlapping and mutually reinforcing learning goals that form the core of a modern liberal arts and sciences education at a leading 21st C research university.

Critical thinking Problem solving All of the Core goals include a specific type of critical thinking and problem solving that you will be able TO DO when you complete a Core course – Analyze Apply Assess Communicate Employ Engage Evaluate Examine Explain Formulate Identify Understand

21ST CENTURY CHALLENGES Students will be able to: Analyze the degree to which forms of human difference shape a person’s experiences of and perspectives on the world. Analyze a contemporary global issue from a multidisciplinary perspective. Analyze the relationship that science and technology have to a contemporary social issue. Analyze issues of social justice across local and global contexts.

AREAS OF INQUIRY Natural Sciences Social and Historical Analysis Arts and Humanities

COGNITIVE SKILLS AND PROCESSES Writing and Communication Quantitative and Formal Reasoning Information Technology & Research

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Discover not just what you want to be, but who you want to be. Join us on the adventure of a lifetime! Discover not just what you want to be, but who you want to be. Hone your ability to think critically and creatively, to communicate accurately and forcefully, to lead with virtue and follow with integrity, and to embrace both the prosaic and sublime in a lifelong adventure in learning.

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