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Pomona's curriculum is guided by the belief that a liberal
arts education should be broad, deep and
responsive to student interests.
 The General Education Program provides a broad and flexible
foundation for every Pomona education. This begins with the Critical Inquiry seminar
for first-year students and continues with requirements for
breadth of study, foreign language and physical education.
All first-year students take part in one of
Critical Inquiry
seminars, which emphasize writing and critical discourse in
a small discussion setting. Bridging multiple academic
disciplines, these
seminars help students develop their
skills in
thoughtful reading, logical reasoning and graceful
writing.
The Breadth of Study requirements are designed to encourage
exploration while providing significant freedom of choice.
Students take at least one course in each of five areas:
Creative Expression; Social Institutions and Human Behavior;
History, Values, Ethics and Cultural Studies; Physical and
Biological Sciences; and Mathematical Reasoning.
In consultation with their advisers, students are free to
make their own selections, based upon their interests and
curiosities, but they are also encouraged to choose courses
that will prove challenging and thought-provoking. The
system enables students to pursue questions of personal
interest from a variety of disciplinary and theoretical
frameworks, freeing them to follow extended paths of inquiry
that a more restrictive general education program might not
permit.
 The College also has a foreign language proficiency
requirement to further our aspiration that students develop
global perspectives and the capacity for intercultural
understanding. Students demonstrate proficiency in a foreign
language by passing a third-semester college-level foreign
language (modern or classical) course (normally within the
first two years), or by appropriate scores on eligible
language exams.
And since exercising our minds so deeply depends upon the
health of our bodies, we require first-year students
to enroll in at least one course in physical education.
General Education is only a starting point. The major field
of study ensures that every student explores at least one
discipline in sufficient depth to understand its
methodologies and opportunities.
With more than 40 majors to
choose from, some Pomona students opt for traditional
disciplines—biology, English, history, economics—while
others elect one of an expansive array of interdisciplinary
majors, including regional and cultural studies as well as
such emerging fields as cognitive science, environmental
analysis, neuroscience and media studies.
 Whatever their major, students work closely with the faculty
in their chosen field and ultimately complete a senior
capstone exercise, usually including a seminar and a thesis
or other senior project. And finally, elective courses
permit students to follow their own curiosity wherever it
may lead them.
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More General Education Requirements Information
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