(FRE/SPA 375 and FRE/SPA 376, or another approved language), or demonstrated proficiency beyond the intermediate level. The remaining 12 semester hours for the minor are carefully selected from a list of approved courses emphasizing an international perspective. The following is a list of approved courses: ART 303, 308; ECO 329, 425; ENG 313; FRE 311, 312, 413; GEO 102, 212; HIS 365, 366, 424; IGS 301, 303; JPN 171; MGT 470, 490; POS 301, 462, 464; PUA 304, 404; SOC 303, 304; SPA 401, 402; SPE 302; WYC 491; Special Topics (including WYC 331, 332, 431, 432 with international emphasis). WYC has offered a wide range of Special Topics with an international perspective, which are made available according to student interest: for example, courses on Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism, African history and philosophy, and issues related to international development and the environment.

The Honors Program is an integrated liberal arts program that emphasizes student discussion of excellent books. The freshman and sophomore courses permit students to complete their University liberal studies requirements through the Honors Program. The junior and senior courses allow students to major or minor in Liberal Studies.

The curriculum in the Whitney M. Young, Jr. College of Leadership Studies is unique; there is no other quite like it in any public university in the nation. The Director of the National Endowment for the Humanities designated the Whitney M. Young, Jr. College of Leadership Studies as one of the five most innovative and promising liberal studies programs in the nation. It is one of twenty-three honors colleges in the United States listed by the National Collegiate Honors Council and has the second largest number of faculty among these honors colleges. The Whitney M. Young, Jr. College of Leadership Studies is committed to offering a stimulating, high quality, rigorous undergraduate education in liberal studies, preparing students for professional study in law, medicine, the ministry, or graduate school. Graduates of this program have gone on into education, business, computer science, law, and many other fields. Beyond questions of education for a career, the Whitney M. Young, Jr., College of Leadership Studies program develops skills of thinking and imagining that will help students deal with the fundamental questions of human existence, regardless of their career goals.

career, the Whitney M. Young, Jr., College of Leadership Studies program develops skills of thinking and imagining that will help students deal with the fundamental questions of human existence, regardless of their career goals.

Thus, in the common course of studies required of all students, the emphasis is on the careful reading and discussion of many of the most important books in literature, history, philosophy, theology, mathematics, and sciences. Classes are small. Students learn to read critically, to speak precisely, to write effectively, and to listen attentively by being required to use some or all of these skills daily. The curriculum is designed not only to help students know, but to help them develop the skills they will need as they take their places in the adult world and in the worlds of the various professions.

While the Whitney M. Young, Jr., College of Leadership Studies is related to other "great books" programs throughout the country in its basic orientation, the curriculum at Kentucky State University is not a pale copy of ideas developed at private universities. The courses and curriculum in the College have been developed and adapted to take advantage of the particular conditions at Kentucky State University, and this development is an ongoing process. Class size ranges from 10 to 15 in tutorials (language and mathematics/science courses), and up to 20 in seminars.

Students who take the Honors Core pursue a sequence of freshman and sophomore courses in the College, which, taken in its entirety (48 semester credit hours), provides an alternative and briefer way of fulfilling all of the University's Liberal Studies Requirements. Engineering and Natural Science majors, with the exception of Biology or Biology Education majors, complete only the seminars and language tutorials; the Math/Science component of the core is fulfilled by courses from the College of Arts and Sciences. Biology and Biology Education majors also fulfill their math and science core requirements through the College of Arts and Sciences and must successfully complete WYC 222 (Evolutionary Biology and Genetics). Curriculum ladders for students completing the honors core are not listed in this Catalogue, but are available

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