Liberal Arts
Michael Rossi, Ph.D., Dean
"Our liberal arts curriculum encourages in-depth exploration of issues and active engagement with peers in a variety of projects, enabling students to develop both self-reliance and the ability to collaborate effectively."
At Merrimack College, the liberal arts tradition is a gateway to a thousand different paths in life.
Is your interest economics? What about poetry? Or is your passion the fine arts, or history, or psychology? Whatever it is, the liberal arts at Merrimack will prepare you to become a critical and creative thinker in any field. With a liberal arts foundation, you’ll have the knowledge and skills necessary to adjust to a changing world, adapt to a changing career path, and appreciate a variety of values and views.
Within the liberal arts, you’ll have many opportunities for in-depth study – and, whatever your major, many opportunities to engage. In keeping with our Augustinian heritage, our emphasis on community inspires our students to become more involved in their classes and many different activities. Here, your learning will be alive, active and energized – whether it’s spirited classroom discussions, a service learning project, study abroad, internships, or our liberal arts co-op program. Faculty members throughout the college make it a point to be accessible to their students and equally engaged in the process of your education.
This is the liberal arts at Merrimack College – a program of study that helps you see how your interests connect to your career goals – and how academics and the working world fit together. Whichever of a thousand paths you may choose in life, the liberal arts will prepare you for great success.
For individuals interested in becoming teachers, the Merrimack M.Ed. degree programs provide you with the necessary tools and knowledge required in the complex environment of today's schools. Merrimack offers five options that lead to licensure through the study of relevant principles of critical issues, implementation of Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks, exposure to Special Education concerns, and close examination of the numerous methods inherent in the process of becoming a competent teacher.
Merrimack’s Newest Academic Program, Criminology
This program enables students to engage in scientific study of the making and breaking of laws, and societal reactions to both. Criminologists study crime and punishment, criminals and victims, and the criminal justice system.