An Empowering Approach to Education
Wesleyan has a tradition of breaking traditions. We know that trying things in different ways is the route to finding better ways and the key to our goal of constant improvement. It’s why the Wesleyan approach to a liberal arts and sciences education is to empower students to chart their own personal journey by exploring and experimenting through our open curriculum.
Curriculum Created by You
Working closely with a faculty advisor, our students choose what they study. Maybe it’s physics, poetry, and music video production. Students propose their academic plan to their faculty advisors and refine it each semester as their discoveries lead them to pursue new areas or deepen existing strengths.
No matter what you choose, you’ll learn to think independently, discover connections across seemingly unrelated subject areas (after all, isn’t there a poetry to physics?) and develop the skill of critical thinking that is foundational in all of life—personal and professional.
Another great aspect of our open curriculum? We promise you’ll never be bored.
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1,000+ courses offered
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80% of courses have no prerequisite
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52% of eligible students pursue a double major
The College of Letters
The Music Department
The IDEAS Lab
Experiment, Explore, Evolve
Curiosity and learning thrive here because students have the freedom to explore, experiment, and challenge traditional boundaries.
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The open curriculum has been excellent. I've taken classes in humanities, sciences, arts, and writing, and I feel like I've really gotten the time to discover what I want to study.
Ariyaan Makhija 鈥�27
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Once your passions are identified, we can call our alumni network into action, and they can help students work their way up and pursue their passion.
Joe Reilly
Men鈥檚 Basketball Head Coach
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I wanted to work on this research expedition [in Greenland] to give my students something tangible to be involved with. Everybody is fascinated by the Arctic and how quickly it鈥檚 changing in response to this new climate state.
Raquel Bryant
Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Environmental Studies
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The zombie takes a human form, yet it鈥檚 evacuated of its identity and its humanity鈥攊t can stand in for human, but also not-human. That allows us to play around intellectually with any number of different theoretical models.
Elizabeth McAlister
Professor of Religion, African American Studies, American Studies, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Director of Academic Writing
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A student who is interested in being an artist, but also wants to learn about engineering, the sciences, or the social sciences, can do so. It is about building a conversation across disciplines.
Elijah Huge
Associate Professor of Art and Environmental Studies, and Associate Professor and Director of the College of Design and Engineering Studies
Creating the Future You Want
Wesleyan alumni are extraordinary people doing extraordinary things. They are innovators who are accelerating the pace of change—socially, politically, culturally, artistically, and technologically. They can be found in every industry and every field, creating solutions to our most critical problems, policies to improve our communities, technology that transforms lives, business practices that evolve our thinking, and art that touches us deeply. This is the place where people open imaginations and activate ideas in the world. They start here with the freedom to discover what they love to do, get better at it and share it with others. Exploration leads to achieving in meaningful ways.
Whatever you dream of doing, wherever you dream of going, whatever you want to pursue, you have resources like the Gordon Career Center as well as alumni worldwide ready to help you create and navigate a life of meaning and impact during and after your time 九色视频.
