Liberal Arts and Business
Liberal Arts and Business (LA+B) is an intellectually engaging teaching and learning environment. LA+B faculty and students have a work ethic and passion for learning that helps them make significant contributions to the development of just, humane, and sustainable communities locally and globally. Early access to faculty expectations, robust and coherent programs of study, compelling intellectual engagement with ideas, faculty and student peers, are hallmarks of Lesley University. Intensely engaging classes permit individualized learning and collaborative pedagogical approaches in academic programs that systematically provide richer, deeper, broader and more meaningful knowledge and career opportunities. Professional advisors and faculty mentors provide students with individualized support in preparation for their professional futures following graduation, including graduate and professional school.
Our goal is to educate students for life-long learning, the generation of new ideas and knowledge, and careers in the pursuit of a better world. Liberal Arts and Business departments work with other areas of the University to offer courses in the general education curriculum. This innovative, contemporary curriculum is organized around 21st century outcomes that prepare students for a wide variety of careers, lifelong learning, and engaged global citizenship. Teacher education candidates and students with aspirations to enter graduate programs immediately or enter the world of work, will do so equipped with foundational knowledge of their disciplines, applied learning within and across programs of study, and a life-long curiosity for learning and effective community engagement.
Toward a Future of Excellence
Students develop academic and professional skills in an environment that supports and promotes intellectual and individual growth. As part of a larger university that includes graduate programs, we offer students the resources of a major higher education institution of 5,000 students while providing the advantages of a small university community.
Running through the rich diversity of LA+B is a pervasive and unifying theme: what you do matters. The philosophy endorses the notion that each student should be encouraged to strive for one's personal best. The curriculum and community are informed by one guiding purpose: to provide all Lesley students with an exceptional opportunity to make an impact through the development of leadership skills, creative problem solving, and solid theoretical and hands-on preparation to influence the communities and people with whom they will work.
Degree Programs
LA+B programs lead to either the Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) or the Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree. These programs combine liberal arts and professional study with practical field experience. Students have the opportunity to explore new areas of academic study through elective courses, independent study, and experiential learning. LA+B also offers one graduate degree, the Master of Business Administration (MBA).