Sentences with phrase «as liberal arts»

You'll be required to take general education as well as liberal arts classes, in addition to core medical assisting classes when working towards an associate degree.

As a liberal arts major, most of my classes were based on reading, researching, analyzing and writing papers.

As a liberal arts major, I have a positive view of liberal arts degrees, and some of the best thinkers of our time support it.

This is, of course, the basis of scientific exploration, but as a liberal arts graduate, I mostly glaze over when the subject turns to sciences and therefore have generally been able to avoid the topic of experiments.

One proposal would be to dedicate a set number of places in each year's class to students who have no intention of articling — those who are seeking an academic path, or looking to secure a law degree as another liberal arts degree.

Aaron Street: I totally get that, and as a liberal arts advocate, I am hyper - curious about everything I see.

Founded by the controversial classics professor and Dewey enthusiast John Andrew Rice, Black Mountain College was established as a liberal arts school that placed art making at the center of its curriculum and became recognized as an art school as time progressed and the list of reputable artist alumni grew.

As a liberal arts major, if you pursue a law degree, there are programs for lawyers you might find helpful.

In 1982, Jamie Chastain, then 34, was attending the University of Southern Florida as a Liberal Arts graduate student.

The students who have entered the AA program receive training in the artistic field of their choice as well as a liberal arts education.

In the nineteenth century they evolved into what we now know as liberal arts colleges.

Not exact matches

About 30 colleges and universities may pay a 1.4 percent tax on their endowment investment returns, including Harvard, Yale and small liberal arts colleges such as Amherst and Williams.

Dave and Helen Edwards, co-founders of artificial intelligence research firm Intelligenstia.ai, don't go so far as to suggest a specific course of study, but like Kalt they have publicly insisted that if you want your kids to thrive in an AI - filled future, you better teach them how to handle human beings, unpredictability, and complexity, all of which a liberal arts degree forces you to confront and grow comfortable with.

But unlike other private liberal arts colleges with large endowments, C of O, as it's often called, has accumulated its endowment all while offering four - year degrees to students tuition free.

Some academics see undeclared majors as the epitome of Deweyan education, the last vestiges of America's one - time liberal - arts sensibility.

His hire was a 22 - year - old Brown liberal - arts graduate with no experience in business; he had tried to support himself in Argentina as a waiter but couldn't get a restaurant to hire him.

Liberal arts majors may cringe as they click on PayScale's underemployment report, expecting to see their program at the top of the list for majors most likely to lead to jobs with low hours and / or in unrelated fields.

Moore has oft repeated his mantra that supporting the arts makes good economic sense, in a statement perceived by some as criticism of the B.C. Liberal government's cuts to arts funding.

It could just as well be argued that those in the liberal arts become more adept at literature, music, or philosophy and are, therefore, «better educated».

Unfortunately, though, with people being discouraged to pursue the liberal arts in the 21st century, openings for these positions are becoming few and far between, and people who have that philosophical blood running through their veins sometimes take on preacher positions as a way to make ends meat, which is wrong because it is the essence of living a lie.

We must cultivate our rational theological assents as a preliminary to our full love, even as the budding philosopher - kings cultivated the liberal arts before drinking the Good's bacchic wine.

liberal arts and humanities: how texts are read, how questions are framed, what counts as evidence.

But as an English major at a small Christian liberal arts college, I can't think of a more fitting analogy to convey how I often feel when I talk to my friends about books.

But as an English major at a small Christian liberal arts college, I can't think of...

Formerly, when the liberal arts college was the major form of higher education, and when it understood its mission as the prepartion of leaders for society, there was some chance of such health.

In the «50s the AG established Evangel College in Springfield, Missouri, as its first liberal arts college.

Along with Anthony Appiah and other current writers about the university, she acknowledges the intrinsic value of study (her most recent book on the topic is titled Not for Profit), while ultimately defending the value of liberal arts as essential for social and political progress.

Yale, Michigan, and Cornell were specifically and often mentioned as models to be followed, away from the liberal arts colleges and their more casual attitudes towards scholarship.

If Scully's mentor and former partner, Red Barber, was the soft - spoken, southern - accented master of the homely analogy — «This game is tighter than a new pair of shoes on a rainy day» — Scully brings to his work the perspective of a philosopher at ease with the human condition, perhaps first formed by the liberal arts education he received at Fordham University shortly after World War II: «Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day - to - day.

At the present time much of what is called liberal education in the arts and sciences is organized as a collection of specialized studies.

Head to elite liberal arts colleges, such as Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Bowdoin, and Middlebury, and you'll find full dedication from the administration, faculty, staff, and students.

This vocational emphasis affects not only the manifestly practical fields of study, such as the technical and professional disciplines, but even the «pure» liberal arts and sciences, which have commonly been represented as the studies appropriate for the nurture of the free man — studies whose justification and worth lie solely in themselves and not in any extrinsic purposes.

The meaning of the liberal arts as educating the «free adult male» was transformed into a program of enhancing human freedom, but this was always perceived in terms of forming and shaping a person.

Language study in the liberal arts colleges should release the student from any sense of bondage to what he may have been taught to regard as the necessary laws of correct speech.

We might describe one, the faculty of liberal arts, as constituting the college.

As Melanie Clark, deputy head at The Laurels, explains: «Our approach, while acknowledging the liberal arts programme, is to equip our pupils with the ability to seek, find and love the true, the good and the beautiful wherever they may be found.

Neither liberalism nor the liberal arts have quite been swallowed by the voracious nought, as my students daily remind me.

The arts merit a central role in liberal studies insofar as they are conceived not as occasions for self - exhibition, studied opacity, and calculated freakishness, but as opportunities for the disciplined attainment of qualitative excellence in the form of singular perceptual constructions.

The Benedictus College of the liberal arts in London is now offering a one - year foundation programme in European culture and thought as a prelude to its full degree programme.

As I stated earlier, liberal Christianity is a middle road between Christ and culture in that it seeks to understand culture, not remove itself from modern science or the arts.

My argument is not for some holy campaign, as Bushman suggests, but for a good ol' liberal arts education as most conducive to the full exercise of divine intelligence.

I've long been happy to point parents, students, and donors to Providence College as a school that takes the classic liberal arts tradition seriously, and does so with a distinctively Catholic flavor.

As Juan Segundo has said, theology is not one of the «liberal arts,» for it contains an element of the prophetic, making it at the very least an unpopular enterprise and at times a dangerous one.

The liberal arts, he recognized, made pathways by which the mind journeys to God — who, as the ultimate source of unity, cohesion, and interconnection in everything that exists, is also the ultimate subject of inquiry.

Yes, the action takes place at a Northeastern liberal arts college, «Seven Oaks,» but as I'll argue elsewhere, one of the film's points is how remarkably dumbed - down a place this generalized lib - ed college is once you scratch the surface.

Schools have continued to offer as an option a version of the liberal arts education they traditionally provided; but such concerns and the faculties supporting them have played steadily decreasing roles among the financial forces that drive the institutions.

For many years, traditionalist thinkers have promoted the teaching of a set of core texts — the «great books» — as a vital element of a liberal arts education during a time when demands for multiculturalism led to the dismantling of a number of traditional programs of study.

This American ideal for education was institutionalized in the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862, encouraging the state schools oriented toward agricultural and technical education that developed as alternatives to the liberal arts colleges.

«The arts may be not the luxury of the few, but the last, best hope of humanity to inhabit with joy this planet,» says Shaw, who sometimes refers to the liberal arts as the «conservative» arts because they are the things that really «conserve» us.

Justice and peace, social service, awareness of and care for the environment, volunteer work; or liberal arts, discriminating inquiry, courses in professional ethics, gender studies: these are presented as the contemporary surrogates for faith.