Freshman year
Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer’s Odyssey, plays by Aeschylus and Sophocles, Hebrew Bible, Plato and Aristotle 4 credits |
Pāli Canon, Five Nikāyas, Sixth Patriarch Sūtra, Vimalakīrti Sūtra, and The Sutra in Forty-two Sections. 4 credits |
Daodejing, Confucius, Zhuangzi, Hanfeizi, Mozi, Mengzi, Xunzi 8 credits |
Essays, poetry, prose 6 credits |
Language (LIBA 151, 152/161, 162)
Classical Chinese or Sanskrit, using Buddhist, Hindu and Chinese classics 8 credits |
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Sophomore year
Stoics, the New Testament, Plotinus, Augustine, St. Anselm, Aquinas, Maimonides, Shakespeare, Hobbes, Machiavelli, and Rousseau 4 credits |
Lotus Sūtra, the Longer Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra, Avataṃsaka Sūtra, the Resolve for Bodhi, the Heart Sūtra, the Vajra Sūtra, the Shastra on the Door to Understanding a Hundred Dharmas, and Ārya Nāgārjuna’s Letter to a Friend 4 credits |
Vedas, Upaniṣads, Mahābhārata, Bhagavadgītā, Purāṇas, Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi, Rāmāyaṇa, Handsome Nanda, 8 credits |
Euclid’s Elements, Greek Geometry, Conics by Apollonius, Geometry by Descartes 4 credits |
Classical Chinese or Sanskrit, using Buddhist, Hindu and Chinese classics 8 credits |
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Junior year
Hume, Kant, Locke, Leibniz, Nietzsche, Spinoza, Austen, Eliot, Kafka, Milton, Molière, Racine, Shelley, Thoreau, Twain, Voltaire, and poetry of Baudelaire, Poe, Whitman, and Wordsworth 4 credits |
Śūraṅgama Sūtra, Awakening of Faith in the Mahāyāna, Nāgārjuna’s Bodhisaṃbhāra Śāstra, and biographies and autobiographies of eminent Buddhist practitioners 4 credits |
Huainanzi, Shiji, Tang Poetry, Zhuxi, Luo Guanzhong 4 credits |
Classical Chinese or Sanskrit, using Buddhist, Hindu and Chinese classics 4 credits |
Aristotle, Goethe, Darwin, Archimedes, Pascal, Gay-Lussac, Bacon, Galileo, Newton, Descartes, Franklyn, Coulomb, Volta, and Ampere 8 credits |
Newton’s Principia Mathematica, Descartes, Pascal, Dedekind 4 credits |
Common musical elements, melody, including intonation, phrasing, and texture 3 credits |
Senior year
Freud, Jung, Hegel, Heidegger, Husserl, Kierkegaard, de Beauvoir, Sartre, Marx, and Wittgenstein 4 credits |
Avataṃsaka Sūtra, Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra 4 credits |
Indian Classics (LIBA 431)
Upaniṣads, Mahābhārata, Purāṇas, Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi s Jainism, Śāktism, Śaivism 4 credits | Rhetoric & Writing (LIBA 441, 442)
Cicero, E.B. White, George Orwell, Bizzell and Herzberg 4 credits |
Einstein, Schrödinger, Heisenberg, Feynman, Watson and Crick 4 credits |
Musical storytelling, repetition and variation, and functional harmony 3 credits |
In-depth study into one or multiple strands 4 credits |
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Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts Unit Distribution
The undergraduate program consists of 120 semester units, with courses from ten strands. The following table illustrates the number of semester units required from each strand over four years. The course code is italicized in the table below. Each course is designated by a 4-letter program code, followed by a 3-digit course code. The LIBA program code indicates courses offered in the Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts program. The first digit of the 3-digit course code indicates the year in which the course is taken, the second digit indicates the strand to which the course belongs, and the third digit indicates the sequence in which the course is taken.
| Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | Year 4 | Total | ||||
Semester | Fall | Spring | Fall | Spring | Fall | Spring | Fall | Spring |
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Buddhist | LIBA 111 4 units |
| LIBA 211 4 units |
| LIBA 311 4 units |
| LIBA 411 4 units |
| 16 units |
Western |
| LIBA 121 4 units |
| LIBA 221 4 units |
| LIBA 321 4 units |
| LIBA 421 4 units | 16 units |
Indian |
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| LIBA 231 4 units | LIBA 232 4 units |
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| LIBA 431 4 units |
| 12 units |
Chinese | LIBA 131 4 units | LIBA 132 4 units |
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| LIBA 331 4 units |
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| 12 units |
Rhetoric and | LIBA 141 3 units | LIBA 142 3 units |
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| LIBA 441 1 units | LIBA 442 3 units | 10 units |
Language | LIBA 151 4 units or LIBA 161 4 units | LIBA 152 4 units or LIBA 162 4 units | LIBA 251 4 units or LIBA 261 4 units | LIBA 252 4 units or LIBA 262 4 units | LIBA 351 4 units or LIBA 361 4 units |
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| 20 units |
Mathematics |
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| LIBA 271 4 units | LIBA 272 4 units | LIBA 371 4 units |
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| 12 units |
Natural |
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| LIBA 372 4 units | LIBA 373 4 units | LIBA 471 4 units |
| 12 units |
Music |
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| LIBA 381 3 unit |
| LIBA 481 3 unit | 6 units |
Capstone |
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| LIBA 491 2 units | LIBA 492 2 units | 4 units |
Units Per Semester | 15 units | 15 units | 16 units | 16 units | 16 units | 15 units | 15 units | 12 units | 120 units |