The Intellectual Foundations Program builds the intellectual and creative foundations for your future at Buffalo State and beyond. It begins with Foundations of Inquiry (BSC 101), a course required in your first year at Buffalo State, and continues with 15 - 20 more courses, most of which should be completed in your first two years in college.
As a Liberal Arts program, Intellectual Foundations consists in the knowledge and capabilities required for full and active participation in the life of your community, nation and world, and to lead what Socrates called "the examined life."
- Breadth of knowledge. Discover interconnections among the Liberal Arts.
- Critical Thinking. Create knowledge through systematic questioning and logically organizing information.
- Research Skills. Efficiently find, evaluate and synthesize information from multiple sources.
- Writing. The ability to write clearly, persuasively and movingly is essential in your career and in your life.
- Quantitative Reasoning and Mathematics. Creative and effective problem-solving and the proper use of quantitative evidence.
- Expand your intellectual horizons, explore ideas.
- Find a major and direction in life and career.