School of Education and Behavorial Sciences
LIBERAL EDUCATION
About
The BALE program is offered at two of Âé¶¹Éç’s campuses: Langston and Oklahoma City. The BALE program is designed to serve the educational needs of urban adults who have completed two years of course work at a community college in a specialized, occupational field or those who have completed their general education requirements at a four-year college or university and wish to complete their degree. This program requires nine credit hours in Liberal Education. Students must earn a minimum of 120 credit hours, obtaining the General Education and major requirements.
The Liberal Education program consists of 36 upper-division hours in one of three pathways:
- 6 upper-division credit hours in six different academic areas of concentration.
- 24 upper-division credit hours in one academic area of concentration and 12 upper-division credit hours in a second academic area of concentration.
- 18 upper-division credit hours for two academic areas of concentration.
Liberal Education Plan of Study
Email Us: Patterson.harris@langston.edu
Mission
The mission of the Liberal Education (BALE) program is to provide excellent post-secondary education in liberal education to individuals seeking knowledge, skills, and dispositions that will enhance the human condition and promote a world that is peaceful, intellectual, and technologically advanced. Our students are provided opportunities to study upper-level Social Studies, Humanities, and Natural Sciences topics that enhance personal growth and enrichment.
Vision
The BALE program will continue to prepare citizens with a strong liberal arts background, able to make ethical and unprincipled judgments and make professional decisions that will help them achieve their potential as persons and as responsible world citizens in a democratic society.
Goal & Objectives
- The BALE program seeks to achieve the stated mission by providing students with academic and experiential opportunities in course work and university experiences that ensure Âé¶¹Éç graduates possess.
Knowledge on the development of academic communication and writing skills. - Knowledge in summarizing current understanding and background information research topic;
- Knowledge of critical thinking, research for addressing problems in the post-modern world, means for creating real-life problem-solving research of interest.





