Structure Of Liberal Arts Education
The structure of a liberal arts education has been around and for centuries in Europe and the Americas however there is still extreme confusion about what it really is and why anyone would find it beneficial. The term liberal arts originally was translated to mean something along the lines of “skills of the citizen elite” or “a gentlemen’s education”(Lind 54). The original core pieces of a liberal arts education included: classical languages; rhetoric and logic; general education; a focus on the humanities; and emphasis on one disciplines skills (54-55). However to keep up with the changing times the original focus of study was altered to include English translations of Latin and Greek texts as well as well as set the program up as a pre-requirement
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During the first 13 years of my education I became increasingly skilled and learning how to succeed in school, what I lacked is the skills to learn. I came to Morris learning how to decipher a professor’s lingo when explaining an assignment, or the key words and ideas that would earn me all the points. I knew what I had to repeat back to my professor to earn full points instead of analyzing information for myself and earning partial credit for giving my own opinions. At UMM I have learned to learn meaning that I have acquired the skills to analyze, assess, argue and link multiple ideas together whether or not they were taught together. For example I have been able to connect concepts I learned in my IC history, and sociology classes to my analysis of French …show more content…
Communication skills are brought up by many (including Hill, Harris and Marion) as a skill employers look for that liberal arts students acquire. There are many aspects of communication, both public speaking and interpersonal and group communication. Although these skills are specific they aren’t learned as the specific focus in a class they are learned through practice in a large variety of classes through aspects such as presentations and group projects. Even in the communications classes I took, I was learning about communications skills by analyzing research, practicing skills with unrelated information and connecting those classes to the other ones I was taking. Not only did I learn theories behind the skills I was able to practice and develop them in ways that will be useful in all future
During the first 13 years of my education I became increasingly skilled and learning how to succeed in school, what I lacked is the skills to learn. I came to Morris learning how to decipher a professor’s lingo when explaining an assignment, or the key words and ideas that would earn me all the points. I knew what I had to repeat back to my professor to earn full points instead of analyzing information for myself and earning partial credit for giving my own opinions. At UMM I have learned to learn meaning that I have acquired the skills to analyze, assess, argue and link multiple ideas together whether or not they were taught together. For example I have been able to connect concepts I learned in my IC history, and sociology classes to my analysis of French …show more content…
Communication skills are brought up by many (including Hill, Harris and Marion) as a skill employers look for that liberal arts students acquire. There are many aspects of communication, both public speaking and interpersonal and group communication. Although these skills are specific they aren’t learned as the specific focus in a class they are learned through practice in a large variety of classes through aspects such as presentations and group projects. Even in the communications classes I took, I was learning about communications skills by analyzing research, practicing skills with unrelated information and connecting those classes to the other ones I was taking. Not only did I learn theories behind the skills I was able to practice and develop them in ways that will be useful in all future