Academics
As a Liberal Arts institution, Coker declares that its mission is to be a student-centered, comprehensive, degree-granting college. Coker's goal is to graduate students with the ability to think analytically and creatively, and to write and speak effectively. It strives to provide every student with an academic curriculum based upon a liberal arts core, known as the Liberal Arts Studies Program (LASP).
The LASP is divided into different baskets of knowledge, and the student chooses the available classes from each basket that most interest them. The baskets are Core Skills (21 semester hours), Knowledge of the Arts (6 hours), Knowledge of the Behavioral Sciences (6 hours), Knowledge of the Humanities (6 hours), Knowledge of the Natural Sciences (7 hours), Knowledge of the United States (3 hours) and Knowledge of the Wider World (3 hours). As the students progresses through school, they may select classes to fulfill basket requirements that are in tune with their interests. For example, in the Knowledge of the Wider World baskets, students could choose a class on Latin-American Literature, World Religions, International Politics, Musics of the World, Modernization and Social Change or African Geography, among others. The classes offered under each basket allow for a host of different options, with no two students ever really taking all the same classes.
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