Students participate in a class session as part of the International Learning Community Arabic floor study program. Photo by Bryce Richter, University Communications
The Wisconsin Experience in L&S
The College of Letters & Science provides a broad and deep array of learning opportunities for undergraduate students.
A Letters & Science education is a rich, invaluable liberal arts experience that helps students in their professional careers and their lives within the community. We believe that our students develop flexible and transferable skills that can accomplish both making a good living and living a good life.
A Letters & Science education gives students the tools to learn by developing competencies in:
These three elements of learning work together to create a broad and rich education in the liberal arts and sciences and promote attainment of core areas of essential learning: knowledge of human cultures and the natural and physical world, intellectual and practical skills, personal and social responsibility, and integrative and applied learning.
L&S classes and instructors emphasize critical thinking, analytical investigation, and effective communication.
These and countless other experiences comprise the Letters and Science approach to helping students obtain a distinctive Wisconsin Experience.
Supporting The Wisconsin Experience
The College also provides resources and infrastructure for many campuswide programs that serve students from all majors, schools and colleges.
The programs supported by L&S include:
