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Bachelor of Arts - Liberal Studies - Quaternity Option

Montana State University

Culbertson Hall, 100, Bozeman, USA

55092

Last updated: 12/05/2025
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About Bachelor of Arts - Liberal Studies - Quaternity Option

Program Description

The Liberal Studies degree offers an interdisciplinary approach to a well-rounded education which emphasizes reading, reasoning, and communication skills in addition to substantive knowledge that will allow graduates to thrive in a broad range of career contexts and to pursue life-long learning. 

All students are required to choose one of three program options, either the Quaternity option (also available online) which offers the more traditional broad-based liberal arts education, or a cross-disciplinary cluster of thematically related courses (option II), which currently includes the Environmental Studies and the Global and Multicultural Studies options. Courses that are used to satisfy one degree requirement cannot be used to satisfy another. Students must complete a minimum of 45 credits in the program after declaring themselves to be Liberal Studies majors.

Quaternity Option

The Liberal Studies Quaternity option is a student-centered option that aims at exploring four different, but interconnected concepts of knowledge—thinking, feeling, intuition, and sensation—which are derived from the complex interaction of mythos (story, fable, imagination) and logos (truth, fact, reality). Students in the Quaternity option are expected to approach and to integrate all of their courses through this epistemological lens, and to demonstrate that they have done so through writing assignments in the Liberal Studies seminars and other course assignments.
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4-Year Bachelor's Degree
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4 Year Bachelor's Degree
Cost of Living
$13,446.00 USD / Year
Gross Tuition
$30,784.00 USD / First Year
Application Fee
$38.00 USD

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