Sentences with phrase «liberal arts curricula»

This full - immersion, credit - bearing semester in green building and design complements architecture, building science, engineering, and environmental design majors and has wide application in liberal arts curricula.

One would expect, then, that the study of music, art, the dance, and literature would occupy a central place in the liberal arts curriculum.

Gia Mora: I've always been drawn to the intersection of art and science, a sort of traditional liberal arts curriculum.

IB, a broadbased liberal arts curriculum, aims to inspire independent inquiry and instill humanitarian values.

Light's new course tasked students with helping Boston's Emerson College figure out how to expand its liberal arts curriculum.

Efforts to rectify the «basic skills» problem have led to the folly of «21st - century skills» rather than a solid liberal arts curriculum.

How have you integrated making with social science or liberal arts curriculum?

But our liberal arts curriculum is not enough.

Scottsdale Preparatory Academy is a state - chartered public school providing an honors level liberal arts curriculum in the tradition of the finest independent private schools.

By offering a classical liberal arts curriculum, Great Hearts not only cultivates the hearts and minds of students in the pursuit of Truth, Beauty and Goodness, but also graduates great - hearted leaders prepared for success at the top colleges and universities worldwide.

Lincoln Preparatory Academy is a state - chartered public school providing an honors level liberal arts curriculum in the tradition of the finest independent private schools.

By offering a classical liberal arts curriculum, Great Hearts cultivates the hearts and minds of students in the pursuit of Truth, Beauty and Goodness.

Cicero Preparatory Academy is a state - chartered public school providing an honors level liberal arts curriculum in the tradition of the finest independent private schools.

Only a relative handful of charter operators nationally are attempting to deliver a classical liberal arts curriculum amid a rigorous academic culture, combined with a full athletic and co-curricular program.

As the Obama administration calls on schools to stop obsessing over standardized tests, Brooklyn Ascend High is rolling out a liberal arts curriculum that promotes critical thinking over exam prep.

Though we must certainly strive to close racial achievement gaps in mathematics and reading, we run the risk of substituting one form of inequity for another, ultimately denying our most vulnerable students the full liberal arts curriculum our most privileged youth receive almost as a matter of course.

Roses is part of a growing movement of progressive and community - based charter schools that emphasize a broader liberal arts curriculum, bringing a full slate of art, music and extra-curricular activities into schools for poor black and brown children.

Jacob Allen and Marie Dandie are co-founders of pilotED, an emerging school network that will offer Indianapolis public school students a rigorous liberal arts curriculum focused on identity and sociology to interrupt cycles of generational poverty.

We teach a rich and rigorous liberal arts curriculum that nurtures students» natural curiosity about the world.

The teachers unions, like so many others, have missed their opportunity to behave more like guildes, advancing the quality of their craft by working with administration to restore the liberal arts curriculum and the discipline necessary to the orderly classrooms necessary to learning itself.

They put a strong liberal arts curriculum in the center, like the Common Core, which is what we use in California.

In pursuit of these virtues, our Special Education teams develop a program for each eligible student that maximizes access to the liberal arts curriculum through small - group or one - on - one instruction, both inside and outside of the regular classroom during the school day.

Great Hearts has grown to become a leader in public charter education by providing a Classical liberal arts curriculum.

Founded on the belief that the opportunities for critical inquiry offered by the best colleges in the country should be available to younger students who have the ambition to learn, BECNO offers 11th - and 12th - graders in New Orleans a tuition - free, immersive liberal arts curriculum.

The school intends to provide the children of the ethnically and socio - economically diverse Richmond community with an academically rigorous science and liberal arts curriculum that emphasizes environmental awareness and social responsibility.

Areas of specialty: Integrated liberal arts curriculum, quarterly themes, hybrid online learning, project - based learning, 21st century skills, student portfolios, senior capstone project, authentic assessments, seminars / workshops, and advisories.

Each specialized high school offers the standard New York State liberal arts curriculum in addition to rigorous electives, especially in the school's area of specialization or theme.

NTU would offer a full undergraduate liberal arts curriculum with an additional focus on pedagogy, developmental psychology, educational theory, and student teaching.

Many of these exhibitions were from «significant solo shows to thematic group shows that investigate ideas important to disciplines across the liberal arts curriculum, and permanent collection exhibitions, supported by scholarly publications.»

The beautiful new and greatly expanded museum space enabled the Museum of Art to organize major scholarly exhibitions of contemporary and historic artists, from significant solo shows to thematic group shows that investigate ideas important to disciplines across the liberal arts curriculum, and permanent collection exhibitions, supported by scholarly publications.

an arts and media college committed to a rigorous liberal arts curriculum, COLUMBIA is dedicated to opportunity and excellence in higher education.

But even more impressive is the way the college integrates the theme of environmental sustainability throughout students» educational experience via its unique Environmental Liberal Arts curriculum.

The city is also home to the well - known Vasser College, with its extensive liberal arts curriculum.

Not exact matches

Brown students have the freedom to personalize their liberal - arts course study, a practice the school calls «open curriculum.»

Ravitch concludes by praising the «1000 schools [that] use the Core Knowledge Curriculum, which describes explicitly what shall be taught in the full range of liberal arts and sciences in each grade.»

The primacy of theology was displayed also by the fact that the actual curriculum emphasized learning Latin, the language of the church, and among the liberal arts, logic, the tool of accurate reasoning required for good theology.

In our view, a liberal arts approach also emphasises a respect for the past; the significance of grammar, logic and rhetoric; and the notion, popularised by the historian Christopher Dawson, that ideas develop within cultures, which means that a grand narrative must necessarily underpin the curriculum.

In her best - selling 2014 novel California, Edan Lepucki briefly describes the fictional Plank College, a free two - year liberal arts program that centers around a Great Books curriculum while teaching its all - male students how to farm.

First, several small but notable Christian colleges (unmentioned by Epstein) still promote the liberal arts through their rigorous core curriculums: Thomas Aquinas College (which offers one degree: B.A. in the liberal arts), the University of Dallas, and Calvin College all deserve mentions.

It motivated a change in public school curriculum during the 1950s and beyond toward science, mathematics and engineering at the expense of history, communication skills and the liberal arts.

This would remove from the liberal arts college the pre-law, pre-medicine, and pre-business curricula, and allow it to devote itself to what has traditionally been its primary task.

My proposal is that liberal arts colleges should develop curricula directed to making future professionals historically, culturally, politically, and socially aware.

Its liberal arts heavy curriculum is being phased in first at the kindergarten and first grade levels.

«Essentially, the students are reaping the benefits of a liberal arts education — small class size, general education curriculum, high contact with professors and a residential campus,» says Graham Miller, a second - year doctoral student and first author of the report.

The Animal Behavior, Ecology and Conservation Program at Canisius (ABEC) combines the rigorous scientific study of Animal Behavior with a values - focused curriculum in the liberal arts tradition.

Professors tend to stay put at this highly ranked liberal arts college of science, engineering, and mathematics, where the focus is on teaching and student - faculty research is an integral part of the curriculum.

«Essentially, the students are reaping the benefits of a liberal arts education — small class size, general education curriculum, high contact with professors and a residential campus,» says Graham Miller, a second - year graduate student in education and the report's first author.

April 21 — Art: The School of Visual Arts is inviting participants in its 1995 National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, to be held in New York City Oct. 18 - 21, to submit proposals for open sessions on the following topics: Whither the Arts — The Right, the Left, and the (Dead) Center; Art and Regionalism; Government Funding of the Arts: Pro and Con; Politics and Graphic Design; Politics and the Studio Curriculum; New Challenges to Multiculturalism; Public Television: Yes or No?

She spent about a decade working at Columbia's Center for Core Curriculum — the office that oversees the school's undergraduate liberal arts program.

Chief among our core elements are: our college - prep curriculum in the liberal arts and sciences that fosters in students the desire and capacity to learn independently, think critically, and communicate proficiently; our supportive school culture in which students are given tools to develop character, gain confidence in their ability to learn, take responsibility for their own learning, and both support and feel supported by the entire community; and a strong co-curricular program in athletics, performing arts, and a host of after - school clubs that pique and develop students» interests.