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Academic Life

There is an intellectual energy on our campus. Lambuth's distinctive academic programs and caring faculty make a Lambuth education an enriching experience for the thinkers, leaders, and innovators of the future.

Academic programs at Lambuth University are designed to help students:

• Acquire the ability to examine life critically, appreciatively, and comprehensively
• Prepare for lives of leadership and service to God and humanity
• Understand the cultural heritage of peoples throughout the world that will broaden their perspectives, enrich their personalities, and enable them to think and act wisely amid the complexities of the present age
• Grow intellectually in the pursuit of meaningful employment, responsible and informed world citizenship, and Christian stewardship
• Develop the desire to continue to search for truth and knowledge throughout life

The Core Curriculum

Lambuth's special core curriculum is built on a strong liberal arts foundation and arranged to enhance students' abilities in analytical thinking, creative decision-making, effective verbal and nonverbal communication, and empathic human relations:

• Freshman Seminar (1 credit) - The seminar is designed to provide support for beginning students by offering help with study skills, increasing awareness of personal strengths and interests, and relating strengths to effective educational planning.
• English Communication I and II (6 credits) - Following a semester of concentrating on paragraph and essay structure, the second semester introduces students to the study of literature and focuses on writing research papers.
• An additional English course (3 credits) - Usually a literature course, the requirement exposes students to some of the best literary thought and develops higher thinking and writing skills.
• Religion (6 credits) - Choices range from various studies in the Bible to Christian Ethics to Classics of Eastern Thought.
• Natural Science (8 credits) - Selected from biology, chemistry, physics and physical science, the laboratory study exercises students in the comprehension, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of a scientific discipline.
• Rhetoric (3 credits) - Based on a theoretical foundation of classical-to-contemporary rhetorical principles, the study provides considerable application opportunities for students to practice the art of informative and persuasive public address.
• Mathematics (3 credits) - Select either Mathematical Concepts: an exploration of mathematical tools applicable to problems encountered throughout the university curricula, including logic, truth tables, probability-statistics, exponential functions, and linear programming, with emphases placed on critical thinking and problem solving; or choose College Algebra and Trigonometry: an introduction to circular functions and their graphs, trigonometric functions and their inverses, and exponential and logarithmic functions.
• Computer Literacy (3 credits) - A selection may be made between courses offered in the Computer Science program and those offered in the Computer Information Systems program, with the objective of ensuring a competent basic use of computers.
• Fitness and Recreational Activities (2 credits) - Two Fitness and Recreational Activities or one two-hour Lifetime Wellness course.
• Interdisciplinary Junior Seminar (3 credits) - A study of the nineteenth century as a time in which major world issues in Western culture shifted from an assumption of constancy to one of change.
• Interdisciplinary Senior Seminar (3 credits) - The seminar provides discussion of major ideas of the twentieth century from which students select the bases for their senior theses.
• Writing course work (at least 3 credits) - In addition to taking the junior seminar, students select at least one course outside the major department which utilized writing as a major learning strategy.