Whether you’re interested in a career as a scientist, business executive, teacher, lawyer or a career in video production, it’s important to have a strong liberal arts education as the underlying foundation for all academic study. Our Concordia Distinctive is an array of integrated liberal arts courses that provide you with an intellectual framework that precedes and complements your primary program of study and provides a foundation for your elective and support courses.

Here’s what makes the Concordia Distinctive, well, so distinctive:

• Your liberal arts education at Concordia is a practical one—anchored in the real world through countless experiential learning opportunities.

• The liberal arts at Concordia can be compared to the essentials that you pack for a lifelong academic journey—the ability to communicate effectively, think critically, and to see the interconnected nature of knowledge, wisdom, and experience.

• Our small college community means you’ll have access to some of the best minds—your professors—who will get to know you, your hopes, and dreams—and who will help mentor you and guide you through your academic program and into a rewarding career and life after college.

• At Concordia, our curriculum is designed to educate the whole person—so that you can see how spirituality and religion are a part of the framework of society and how the appreciation of many faiths and beliefs allows you to be a more compassionate citizen of the world.

• In the minutes it takes to reach New York City from our campus, you can see an “abstract” concept learned in your textbook—become a living, breathing reality one of the countless internship and fieldwork sites available in the city.