Courses

General Education

Soka University of America

General Education

SUA provides an outstanding liberal arts education designed to draw forth and nurture the unique potential of each individual. SUA students enjoy small seminar classes with an average class size of 16, a 9 to 1 student faculty ratio, and professors teaching comparative Eastern and Western perspectives across the liberal arts curriculum.

All students are required to concentrate on a foreign language and to participate in a study abroad for a semester in their junior year relevant to their major and their language of study.

The Core is a series of sequential courses taken by all undergraduate students, focusing on central issues facing our world in the 21st century. These courses examine comparative perspectives in areas including views of the self, the relationship between self and society, and ther relationship between self and the environment.

The Learning Clusters are courses in which small interdisciplinary teams of students and faculty work together to do research and develop proposals and solutions addressing local, regional and world issues. Acquiring the critical tools of investigation and analysis will be integral to the Learning Cluster experience, as well as the integration of knowledge and service.

As part of the liberal arts curriculum, SUA also offers classes in fine and performing arts, science, communications, business and other humanities. See curriculum and catalog for a detailed list of classes.