Degree Requirements

The curriculum provides a structure in which students can discover how a liberal arts education enriches their lives. It offers opportunities for them to reflect on their education and to integrate learning and experience. It encourages them to discern connections between the various fields within the liberal arts and between those fields and their major. It is designed to provide broad exposure to the disciplines in the liberal arts, concentration in major and minor fields, proficiency in several transferable skills and flexibility in program design. The interdisciplinary course, First-Year Seminar, provides a common experience for beginning students and the series of courses in the category “Exploring the Liberal Arts” offers opportunities for all students to experience integration and coherence in their learning experiences.

The major components of the curriculum are the First-Year Seminar and “Exploring the Liberal Arts” courses, general education distribution courses which vary by degree type, a concentration in one or more majors and minors, and elective courses.

The University has 16 academic departments. The student may choose from among 28 majors. Some students follow pre-professional programs. Students take approximately 40 hours in their major, 28 to 37 in electives and 43-52 in general studies distributed among natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and arts.

Heidelberg offers Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Music, Master of Arts in Education, Master of Arts in Counseling, Master of Business Administration and Master of Music Education degrees.