Citizen Scholars

CAL Enrollment Closed

Program Contact Information

Program Director:

Stacia Rigney

Enrollment Closed

CS Option Courses

Students complete 15 credits of departmental courses that meet the criteria of the program, or arrange to complete extra projects under faculty guidance that allow a course to meet those criteria. An additional major or approved minor also meets this requirement. Citizen Scholars Options Courses are courses offered through departments within and beyond the College of Arts and Letters. Each course is approved individually in consultation with the particular instructor, and the faculty have agreed to align these courses with CS criteria, including

*skills, such as effective leadership, creative entrepreneurship, collaboration, communication and expression across cultures, contexts, and media . . .

*concepts of self and other, citizenship, community, justice, and ethics, the recognition of difference and particularity as central to democracy . . .

*and exposure to attitudes that contribute to our capacity to engage with and value a diversity of perspectives, identities, and commitments.

The purpose of Citizen Scholars Option Courses is to strengthen the students’ grounding in the wide array of core skills, values, and attitudes. These academic and social qualities and capacities are central to their development as engaged citizens, global leaders, and effective researchers and creators in a context of aspiration and commitment.