Sentences with phrase «more liberal arts»

Call it a J.D. or an LL.B., but your average law degree remains more a liberal arts education than a graduate or professional instruction, and certainly is not preparation to practise law.

I can't think of anything more liberal arts than this.

If you prefer the more liberal arts education, you can go back to University and study Law or Kinesiology, whatever you feel like!

I was a reader, writer, artist, and overall more liberal arts inclined person.

Not exact matches

In the future, Sims predicts that companies like Codecademy, which teaches people how to code online, will become a more viable alternative to the traditional liberal arts education.

Rather, the former talk show host, entrepreneur, actress, and philanthropist receiving an honorary doctorate of letters by the liberal arts school, urged the class of 2017 to channel something more basic: cultivate a clear vision of who you are and what moves you.

Women are most likely to move away from education (by more than 1 percent share of women's enrollment if counting all education fields together), literature and language, sociology, psychology, and liberal arts and history.

Far too many are saddled with mountains of student - loan debt and have little more than scant work experience and a liberal arts degree to show for it upon graduation.

She has more than 20 years» experience in telecommunications, cyber, and ICS security even though she has a liberal arts degree.

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».

Like getting a liberal arts education supposedly is broader and more enlightening than voc.

This was the question asked by my initiation paper for a liberal arts discussion group that met more than fifty years ago.

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.

«Only relatively late were the more rational branches of education added... and the system of liberal arts, invented...; finally philosophy was added,» [12] above all, from the second century on, «divine Plato.»

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.

I now propose to show more concretely just how liberal studies entail the practice of freedom, by examining briefly the nature of the knowing process in some of the main disciplines in the liberal arts and sciences.

Their college preparation must include more than the liberal arts.

The NWS offers a more university liberal - arts view of wine education, so it has a greater emphasis on this career path.

«More than a century has passed since the discovery of the first viruses,» said Stedman, who teaches at PSU's College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.

She said that she has always loved the natural world, but has more experience in liberal arts than science.

I had come to value a liberal arts setting as a result of my undergraduate college experience, yet I also wanted to be connected to larger, more academically diverse campus.

After my first year as a faculty member in the chemistry department of a small liberal arts college, I felt more certain than ever that my strong desire to remain childless was even more of an advantage than I had previously realized.

The data also tell a story about variables that influence the success of women who earn doctorates in S&E: they are more likely to have attended a liberal arts college rather than a university as undergraduates.

I was invited to talk alongside more senior liberal arts faculty about life at a liberal arts science department and how to get hired at an institution like mine.

Kepler lived in an era when there was no clear distinction between astronomy and astrology, while there was a strong division between astronomy / astrology (a branch of mathematics within the liberal arts) and physics (a branch of the more prestigious discipline of philosophy).

I often talk to graduate students who are interested in learning more about my job as a professor of chemistry at a top - tier liberal arts college and about the best way to prepare for a job like mine.

Also, other studies have found that students from less - educated families tend to flock more to STEM fields or others with higher earnings returns than students of educated parents, who might be more inclined to choose a liberal arts degree.

Snow, with the University's College of Liberal Arts, and her graduate students, Michael Gomez and Rafal Skiba, recently submitted a paper on the findings of their research study, «Graspable objects grab attention more than images do» which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a top - tier psychology journal.

DC is a more liberal city, with 76 % of registered voters listed as Democrats, but the city isn't just about the politics — it also has thriving arts, theater, sports, and music scenes.

He's currently enrolled into the University of Hawaii, studying liberal arts for an associates degree, and is in the process of adding more works in writing.

Ten more terrific movies, any of which might have slipped into my first ten on a different day: A Cat in Paris, Bernie, Liberal Arts, The Master, Middle of Nowhere, Moonrise Kingdom, A Royal Affair, The Sessions, The Silver Linings Playbook, Skyfall, Smashed.

We could mention Steve Rogers / Captain America (Chris Evans, here looking and acting more like Captain America's vaguely distracted liberal arts professor nephew).

I must admit that I haven't been a fan of Zac Efron, but his standout performance in Josh Radnor's Liberal Arts made me believe that Efron has a lot more to him than just teenie star label he has earned.

As the years progress, Jane begins to feel more like a (more...) This biopic of celebrated physicist Stephen Hawking explores his early years at Cambridge, where he fell in love with liberal - arts student and future wife Jane shortly before being diagnosed with ALS.

Radnor's second feature Liberal Arts premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and impressed me much more.

Enter Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind), coming from the much more liberal California, accepting a teaching gig to instruct art history to the young ladies.

Liberal Arts is more of a diorama than a film.

The first step toward its defeat must be, as the Committee of Ten recognized more than 110 years ago, having all high - school students follow an intellectually rich liberal arts course of study.

In a word, despite David Awbrey's heartfelt and totally admirable championship of the liberal arts, and his best intentions to the contrary, his book is more of a depressant than a source of inspiration.

Traditionalists dislike the rationale for downplaying liberal arts knowledge, while accountability reformers consider its criticisms just one more rehearsal of antitesting points.

In a world where it seems that the liberal arts are giving ground to a more technocratic approach to learning, such innovation would seem to be timely.

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.

The facilities plan also calls for moving the nationally ranked Liberal Arts and Sciences Academy away from LBJ High in East Austin and to a more central location.

More than 50 % of college graduates attend more than one higher education institution before receiving a bachelor's degree (Ewell, Schild, & Paulson, 2003), and approximately 60 % of teacher education occurs in general liberal arts and sciences, and other academic departments outside of teacher educatMore than 50 % of college graduates attend more than one higher education institution before receiving a bachelor's degree (Ewell, Schild, & Paulson, 2003), and approximately 60 % of teacher education occurs in general liberal arts and sciences, and other academic departments outside of teacher educatmore than one higher education institution before receiving a bachelor's degree (Ewell, Schild, & Paulson, 2003), and approximately 60 % of teacher education occurs in general liberal arts and sciences, and other academic departments outside of teacher education.

The liberal arts and fine arts offer students the ability to expand their minds and become valuable in more than just a single lane.

So while his daytime hours are spent at a local liberal arts college teaching literature to entitled millennials who would rather spend more time arguing about the finer points of plagiarism than write yet another essay about Hamlet, Sam drowns his leisure hours playing Elfquest, an online role - playing game where his avatar is the coolest and most revered among his fellow gamers.

Immonen once again conjures up some cinematic art, while Marte Garcia makes liberal use of the colour purple to frame more than one team.

Instead of going for your regular liberal arts major, narrow your search to only fields that are more likely to give you a good return on your investment.

A medical student is a more attractive target for a lawsuit than a liberal arts major, because one day the medical student will become a doctor, probably making six figures.

STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) degrees result in higher paying jobs, while liberal arts, education and social work degrees earn little more than a high school diploma.