Liberal arts

Prompt 1: When I think of liberal arts, I automatically think of Liberal arts colleges. When I was graduating high school I spent much of my time researching what kind of college would interest me. I found out that I really liked the vibes of liberal arts colleges because they offered more artistic and creative ways of teaching. I looked at colleges like Bard College, Columbia College Chicago, and The University of New Hampshire College. All these colleges offered my major (early childhood…

Why is it an important aspect of a liberal arts education to be able to think from the perspective of others? In what respects does such an ability help one better cope with life? What ideas or experiences from courses and extra-curricular activities are assisting you to empathize with others and think from different perspectives? What steps might you take to better develop this ability? Need to think from the perspective of others because the world does not revolve around one person.…

engineering, and mathematical (STEM) like skills that are very useful in health-care facilities. Liberal arts helps in terms of developing skills that are more applicable in everyday life that are still creates an impact in high educated occupations like nursing. Humes (2012), a professor of creative writing at the University of Victoria, lists the certain types of skills that develop though liberal arts courses: “…critical thinking, analytical problem solving, intellectual curiosity, the…

Nugent, who has been the President of multiple liberal arts college as well as a long time educator. She elaborated on the positives of a liberal arts education through five paradoxical questions. These were her five questions: 1) What does liberal arts mean? 2) What is a liberal arts education? 3) Is a liberal arts education useful or useless? 4) What can you do with a liberal arts education? 5) Is a liberal arts education different from a liberal arts college? She used these questions to make…

One might ask how the topic of fear relates to the liberal arts. Fear, although it manifests itself in physical and physiological symptoms, is an omnipresent force effecting the human race. The symptoms it causes and our responses influence our behavior, thoughts, and decisions. All of which are studied by liberal arts disciplines. To better understand the human response to fear, it helps to understand the body’s response. When a stimulus that triggers fear is encountered, impulses are sent…

should students obtain a liberal arts degree? There are not as many jobs available for a degree in liberal arts as there are for a degree in science, engineering, and technology. How can a liberal arts degree benefit someone in his or her future occupation? Sanford J. Ungar states that, “more than three-quarters of our nation’s employers recommend that students pursue a liberal arts education” (190). This helps students work as groups, and to think for themselves. Liberal arts are compelling…

during his journey. Arguably, Griffin’s passion for the black community came from his liberal arts education at the University of Poitiers. Like Griffin’s education, there are a variety of ways a liberal arts education can contribute to social justice, such as the entitlement to one’s own opinion, the embraced atmosphere of change at the school, and the emphasis on virtue. First of all, professors at a liberal arts school encourage a person to develop their own opinion about topics. Too often…

The Great Conversation by Robert M. Hutchins, Statement of Liberal Education by Association of American College & University, What Is a 21st Century Liberal Education by Association of American College & University (AAC&U’s), and Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Freire’s are four articles that explain what liberal education stand for and what has been accomplished over the years. From reading the four articles they explained how liberal education has helped empower students and helped then…

The process of deciding what college to attend, is one of the most difficult tasks that one can have in their lives. There are so many variables in choosing the right school, the education, sports, size, denomination. The University of Sioux Falls is a great fit for me because of many different things like the size, education, and the denomination. Being able to play a sport that you enjoy and study the intended majors are great to have. But in addition, the close relationships that all students…

Owens College might be able to go about developing operational goals to assess its performance on liberal arts learning outcomes by providing a specific basis for evaluation of performance, by breaking down a larger goal into workable tasks. The focus of operational goals is narrow, measurable, concrete and specific (Baker & Baldwin, 2015). For example, “Owens College liberal arts program admission will include 50 foreign new students next semester” verses “the college’s future curriculum…