Curriculum for Liberal Education

Curriculum for Liberal Education [CLE]


2007-08 Curriculum for Liberal Education Guide for Students, Advisors, & Faculty

Guides from 1998 to the present
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The Curriculum for Liberal Education [CLE] is required for every undergraduate student.

The CLE comprises 25 - 30% of an undergraduate's courses, offering over 500 courses in 64 departments, across 7 required CLE Areas of Study.
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Virginia Tech's Center for Liberal Education is part of building a new vision of the breadth and quality of education required as a foundation for a meaningful and holistic undergraduate experience at Virginia Tech. These pages offer information about the mission and purpose of the Center, the current Curriculum for Liberal Education [CLE] Guide to areas of study and course offerings, historical copies of Guides, supporting information about contacts and majors, and administrative perspectives on the development of the curriculum.

 

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness.
To have knowledge, deep broad knowledge, is to know truth from false and lofty things from low.
To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked men's progress, is to feel the heartthrob of humanity through the centuries.

Helen Keller

 

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