Integrative Studies Requirements

Academic work at Houghton is organized under four headings: integrative studies, major work, minor work, and elective work. Integrative studies is a curriculum designed to serve as both a foundation and a scaffolding,existing alongside the student's major, minor, and elective work. It is foundational in the sense that it offers essential content and skills needed for advanced study. It is scaffolding in that it provides a context and framework for one's entire educational program and helps one to integrate information from seemingly unrelated areas.

There are two sets of integrative studies requirements at Houghton. Courses that meet Liberal Arts Foundation requirements provide the knowledge, skills, and values necessary for more complete understanding of disciplinary study and of ourselves as human beings. Liberal Arts Exploration courses broaden our understanding of the range and depth of questions with which Christian scholars struggle.