Education at Wagner is designed to give graduate and undergraduate students a deep and broad academic foundation while obtaining and demonstrating the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in society as well-informed, responsible, capable and contributing citizens. The Library continues to grow and thrive as it supports all the graduate and undergraduate programs throughout the College.
Wagner College’s undergraduate curriculum provides all students with a common core of knowledge in the liberal arts and sciences. Students select a disciplinary major and have the opportunity to complement it with electives and minor areas of study as well. Every student must complete at least 36 units to earn a bachelor’s degree at Wagner College. Most of the College’s courses are equivalent to 1 unit. Students typically complete 9 units in an academic year.
Wagner College’s five graduate programs matriculate students who demonstrate deeper degrees of competence in their chosen areas of study. Each of the graduate programs focuses on the theory and knowledge of the discipline while concurrently applying these to the profession and the community.
The Wagner Plan is a unique curriculum that combines our deep commitment to the liberal arts with experiential learning, producing a truly interdisciplinary education that is both classical and practical. The Wagner Plan is the signature of a Wagner education.
Wagner College prepares students for life, as well as for careers, by emphasizing scholarship, achievement, leadership, and citizenship. Wagner offers a comprehensive educational program that is anchored in the liberal arts, experiential and co-curricular learning, interculturalism, interdisciplinary studies, and service to society, and that is cultivated by a faculty dedicated to promoting individual expression, reflective practice, and integrative learning.
Wagner College achieves this mission through the implementation and enhancement of The Wagner Plan for the Practical Liberal Arts. The Plan is predicated on a method of integrated learning. Specifically, the Plan relies on the integration of liberal arts and professional education with experiential learning. The breadth and width of the liberal arts provide a wider and more cosmopolitan understanding of diversity of cultures, historical epochs, differing values and systems of human organization as well as ethical and moral dilemmas. Professional education emphasizes applied learning in business, education, and nursing which emphasize conceptualization design, field practice, assessment evaluation and revision. The integration of these two powerful learning paradigms best prepares students for positions of effective and responsible leadership in their chosen professions and to the various publics served by them.
Preparing students for leadership requires a coherent, efficient and effective educational program and a focused Faculty and Administration, supported by an equally committed Board of Trustees.
For more information, please contact Provost Devorah Lieberman at 718-390-3211 or dlieberm@wagner.edu
