Designed for exploration.

Choose your General Education Path

Each student at Northland College takes a selection of courses from across the arts, sciences, and humanities. This requirement is more than just hoop jumping. It provides a well-rounded foundation of knowledge and skills. Northland College’s general education is designed for exploration. Our students know that chemistry and writing can be closely linked, or that sociology can create better business leaders. Time and again, they have found out how disparate interests actually intersect in surprising ways. They have uncovered unimagined possibilities.

Our general education model, Liberal Education for the Environment and Society (LEES), integrates liberal arts with an environmental studies emphasis, enabling you to address the challenges of the future. LEES prepares you to be a leader in understanding, communicating, and acting upon environmental issues, and in working to address societal dynamics that create and are influenced by environmental issues.

Learning Community Options

If you’re looking for a small-group learning community, we also offer two general education pathways that focus on topics regarding sustainable agriculture or the Lake Superior region.