My plan with a Liberal Arts degree is to acquire all the knowledge I need to succeed in the publishing world. I have been writing without any formal education since I was very young‚ and even submitted works to agents and editors‚ some of which asked for more of my work. Regardless‚ I wanted to polish my writing and gain the necessary skills and this is what I hope to achieve. For this reason‚ I wish to gain a solid foundation for my writing career. The expected outcome after completing this degree
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Marywood’s Liberal Arts is a requirement for the students in order for them to graduate. It provides positive benefits over all for the students even if it does not intervene with their major. Having an education in the Liberal Arts provides an individual to share their education and communication throughout their environment. For example‚ my major is Interior Architecture and I find it pointless to take an English class. I do not see how reading a book and jotting down notes can help me when I
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Sanford J. Ungar: Defender of the Liberal Arts William Butler Yeats is accredited with once saying “Education is not the filling of a pail‚ but the lighting of a fire.” It seems this idiom no longer rings true; today’s preferred education encompasses the regurgitation of technical jargon in the hopes of finding a job. People now deem Liberal Arts degree worthless; it’s too expensive and impractical in today’s job market. The sciences and career colleges are where the jobs lie. In the battle over
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School af Liberal Arts and Human Services The School of Liberal Arts and Human Services produces a diverse range of graduates with varying skills and competencies including artists‚ musicians‚ mathematicians‚ psychologists‚ social workers‚ sociologists‚ journalists‚ poets‚ dramatists‚ and in general‚ graduates who can make great contributions towards enhancing the social and cultural development of the nation. The School of Liberal Arts and Human Services consists of four departments:
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and acknowledge that the sciences are for the smart students while Art subject are for the lazier students. As a result‚ students are gradually becoming less interested in Liberal Arts. People have chosen Science subjects over
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2014 Technology in Liberal Arts Education Are the liberal arts becoming less pertinent and less respected in society today due to technology? Technology is taking over every college student’s life for writing research papers‚ doing the research‚ and many other non college related activities such as social media. Technology could produce a loss of liberal arts education because of its rapid growth. Technology could also motivate more students to take part in liberal arts because it is so far
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A Catholic liberal arts education is an education in the liberal arts‚ philosophy‚ and theology that takes wisdom/contemplation to be the end and so regards the liberal arts as a preparation for philosophy and theology. Moreover‚ it sees the wisdom/contemplation attained by theology as being higher than that of philosophy and‚ therefore‚ takes philosophy itself to be ordered to theology. The study of theology improves on our knowledge of God and illuminates the path to perfect happiness
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A liberal arts education can be defined as the study of academic subjects in the following categories; literature‚ philosophy‚ mathematics‚ and social and physical sciences. However‚ the advantage of a liberal arts education should be left to the individual to decide. According to the official website for Wheaton College‚ a liberal arts education has six main advantages. First and most important to me‚ a liberal arts education teaches us how to think. Throughout your lifetime you will be asked to
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The Role of Liberal Arts in a College Education Henry Rosovsky’s article entitled The Purposes of Liberal Education is a brief‚ but extremely accurate and clearly-written explanation of what he feels a liberal arts education entails. The author has had extensive experience in the field of education and has been able to shape and impact many students while being the Dean at Harvard College. For this reason‚ consideration of his ideas on the liberal arts is merited. His standard of liberal education
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Liberal Arts‚ and the Advantages of Being Useless| 1 Nicholaos Jones Department of Philosophy University of Alabama in Huntsville nick[DOT]jones[AT]uah[DOT]edu 1 Introductory Remarks The trees of the mountain bring their own destruction. The oil in the lamp burns itself. The cinnamon tree is edible‚ so it is cut down. The varnish tree is useful so it is cut apart. All know the advantage of being useful‚ but no one knows the advantage of being useless. - 莊子 [Zhuangzi] (364-290 BCE)‚ Zhuangzi‚
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