This breadth of scope is the basis for a program
of liberal studies in a pluralistic democracy in which all the citizens are expected to participate.
Thus, the curriculum
of liberal studies is to be guided primarily by concern for high quality, not by considerations of student popularity and interest — though these may be welcome by - products.
If a standard course
of liberal studies is provided under these conditions, many people will fail to find therein their own pathway to excellence and will lose the recreational preparation that a more varied program would have offered.
To assert that modern education should be infused with the ideals of recreation is to affirm the centrality
of liberal studies in the curriculum.
The fourth is seldom noticed, and yet in some ways is closer to the essence
of liberal studies than the other three, and on that account is particularly worthy of emphasis.
I believe that the contemporary student generation's concern for freedom in higher education and their recognition of the slavishness of much of what goes by the name
of liberal studies points toward the need to restore the lost element of leisure in the life of learning and to renew the conviction that understanding contains its own rewards.
My list of the «uses»
of liberal studies was not intended as exhaustive, but was a set of gestures, clumsy ones perhaps, toward the conclusion (explicitly stated in the article) that «liberal studies can be shaped into instruments of worship.»
«Good Work in the Global Context» at New York University (Marcelo Suárez - Orozco and Howard Gardner) «Integration
of Liberal Studies» at San Jose State (Susan Verducci) «Communication in Organizations» at Colorado State University (Kirsten Broadfoot) «Ethics and Professional Identity: What is Good Work?»
She's the coordinator
of our liberal studies program and has been helping students pursue growth and advancement for more than 26 years.
Wyman teaches in the faculties
of Liberal Studies and Art (Criticism and Curatorial Practice), and supervises graduate students in the CCP and IAMD programs.
January 15, 2009: Eric Nay is an architect, design history and theory scholar and an Associate Dean in the Faculty
of Liberal Studies at the Ontario College of Art & Design.
He is a graduate of Bowling Green State University with a Bachelor
of Liberal Studies degree.
The School
of Liberal Studies is your gateway to a variety of college or university programs and a launching pad where you may discover your passion.
Email Jen Matthews, administrative assistant, School
of Liberal Studies, for guidance.
She has a B.A. in Communication from Stonehill College, and a Master
of Liberal Studies in Creative Writing from the University of Denver.
In 2016, Dave was awarded a Master
of Liberal Studies degree (English concentration) from Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas.
In addition to a Master of Negotiation and Dispute Resolution from Creighton School of Law, and a Master
of Liberal Studies from Arizona State University, I bring to the table a B.S. in Accounting and 30 plus years of accounting experience.
Not exact matches
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.
She talks about the scores
of ethnographies she'd read, and how white,
liberal social scientists were shocked, shocked to discover that most
of the Klan members they
studied were pretty nice people.
A number
of Liberal party supporters and candidates on Twitter cited a government
study on federally regulated industries showing that only 416
of those workers made minimum wage in 2008.
I read a terrific
study by Richard Charnin, who is a mathematician, a
liberal Democrat, an eccentric but brilliant guy, who concludes on the basis
of the exit polls and the actual vote on a precinct - by - precinct basis that the swing can not be that wide without widespread voter fraud.
A
study published in the journal Science and written by three members
of the Facebook data science team found that the News Feed algorithm suppresses what they called «diverse content» by 8 percent for self - identified
liberals and 5 percent for self - identified conservatives.
The
Liberals recently voted down a
study of minimum income when the proposal was raised in parliamentary committee by NDP MP Guy Caron.
In the legislature, Trevena and fellow New Democrats pressed the B.C.
Liberals for answers after an economic impact
study by the City
of Prince Rupert found that the government's ferry service cuts could cause «serious and widespread damage to the northern B.C. economy.»
Undertook substantive curriculum revisions to AK / ADMS 3620 3.00: «Elements
of Law: Part 2,» Atkinson Faculty
of Liberal and Professional
Studies, 2007 - 2009.
And if we are allowed to pursue our «
liberal»
studies undistracted by what does not belong to them, we may thank the survival
of an ancient tradition
of education for our good fortune.
This way
of thinking about education reappeared among the Romans in the expression liberalia studia, «
liberal studies» or
studies liberated from the concerns
of practical doing,
studies concerned with all the activities that belong to «play.»
Jaroslav Pelikan (1923 - 2006) was the greatest historian
of Christian doctrine since Adolf von Harnack, and he was both more comprehensive and more sympathetic to the tradition he
studied than was the great scion
of German
liberal Protestantism.
But in theory at least, any field, any book, any course
of study, presented in the right way, can provide an entry point for the awakening
of a desire for
liberal learning.
The trick to
studying well is to steer clear
of liberal theologians who care little for truth, and would rather render the text in as «politically correct» a manner as possible.
What «Effective Christian Education» shows most effectively, however, is the fraudulence
of what is presented as the «scientific»
study of religion — and the credulity
of church leaders who can not distinguish between Christian faith and
liberal sentimentalities.
From the 1930s through the 1980s Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik represented the alternative: an Orthodoxy centered on the service
of God even while engaged with and concerned for the rest
of humanity, deeply, almost obsessively devoted to the traditional
study of Torah even while confronting and learning from the
liberal arts.
In his previous, more historical
studies, Walsh explored overlooked sources, often outside the
liberal canon, that made the value
of personal experience central to modern political thought.
Madison Michieli grew up in Denver, Colorado and is currently a sophomore at Wyoming Catholic College, where she
studies the
liberal arts with a special interest in the theology
of St. Thomas Aquinas.
The LAM scale (
Liberal, Antiliberal, and Mythological) is demonstrated in Richard A. Hunt, «Mythological - Symbolic Religious Commitment: The LAM Scales, «Journal for the Scientific
Study of Religion 11 (1972): 42 52.
Two
of the
studies mentioned above are by David Gushee, a conservative moral theologian who teaches at the Baptist Mercer University; another is by Wendy Farley, a
liberal theologian at Emory.
From the 1930s through the 1980s Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik represented the alternative: an Orthodoxy centered on the service
of God even while engaged with and concerned for the rest
of humanity, deeply devoted to the traditional
study of Torah even while confronting and learning from the
liberal arts.
We found that in our
study sample there was a modest over-representation
of younger and more
liberal clergymen.
Third, there are
liberal constitutional arguments for requiring, not just permitting, the
study of religion in public schools.
There are good
liberal, secular reasons for incorporating the serious
study of religion into the curriculum
of public schools.
Given the latest medical data concerning the distinct characteristics
of the fetus and its ability to survive outside the womb at a startlingly early age, it is little wonder that in the past few years several
of the denominations that once took a more open position on abortion have retreated somewhat: the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is now
studying the issue; in a 1980 statement on social principles, the UMC moved to a more qualified position; the Episcopal Church and the recently formed Evangelical Lutheran Church in America seem to be in the process
of toning down their earlier positions (or those
of a predecessor body) The Lutherans defeated a resolution in their 1989 Assembly which would have been consistent with the
liberal position
of the LCA predecessor body, and a 1988 Lutheran - Episcopal dialogue report refers to the fetus as «embryonic humanity» with claims on society.
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.
Robinson reminded us
of the original, authentically neo-Puritanical Oberlin: The only college in America at the time which offered a
liberal education to both blacks and women, and the place where everyone — including the professors — both
studied and did useful work.
Given all that, it is perhaps surprising that 55 percent
of the Protestant congregations we
studied — slightly more among conservatives, slightly less among
liberals — report that they consider themselves strong standard - bearers
of their denominational tradition.
Despite its age, the
liberal Protestant metanarrative continues to influence not only religious
studies but also, as Milbank shows, the social sciences
of religion.
I bet if a
study was done on the mothers
of Aborted babies they would find the mothers were
Liberals.
At the present time much
of what is called
liberal education in the arts and sciences is organized as a collection
of specialized
studies.
The preference for a male may be unspoken or obliquely voiced by search committees, especially in
liberal Protestant denominations where «it is totally unacceptable to refuse» pastor candidates because
of gender, race or ethnicity and it is «frowned upon» to make age or marital status an issue, said the
study, published last year as part
of the Pulpit & Pew project at Duke Divinity School.
In fact, it has at length become evident that the content
of a
study is not what makes it «
liberal» or otherwise, and that any subject
of study can be included in a
liberal education, provided it is treated in a
liberal fashion.
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.