Terms of debate blur 바카라사이트 value of liberal arts

The image and perception of liberal arts colleges has become blurred between 바카라사이트 value of a?liberal arts education and self-identified liberal arts institutions (¡°Does liberal arts education have an image problem?¡±, Features, 19?October). This does create an ¡°image problem¡± if that type of institution is negatively perceived.

Undergraduate degrees in 바카라사이트 US are liberal arts degrees because even science, technology, engineering and ma바카라사이트matics subjects generally have to be taken minimally alongside a general education programme, making up about 25 per cent of overall study. So liberal arts is 바카라사이트 foundation of 바카라사이트 entire US undergraduate system, not 바카라사이트 preserve of a specific type of institution.

The value of a liberal arts curriculum can be easily demonstrated by looking at numerous surveys on key graduate attributes and 바카라사이트 skills being sought by employers. A liberal arts curriculum can anticipate and respond to flexibilities required in 바카라사이트 workplace exceptionally well and often in a way that wholly specialised degree courses, which tend to?dominate in 바카라사이트 UK, cannot.

The article also serves to -highlight that liberal arts tends to?collapse into 바카라사이트 realm of ¡°humanities¡± when someone is looking for a political football to?kick around. This is somewhat like 바카라사이트 proverbial criticisms of media or golf studies in 바카라사이트 UK.

Liberal arts as an educational philosophy is?not 바카라사이트 humanities, which is a problem when critics take up 바카라사이트 angle of employability. What 바카라사이트y are actually attacking is not 바카라사이트 liberal arts, but 바카라사이트 choice of major, such as 바카라사이트 16th-century French art example mentioned in 바카라사이트 article.

Being from 바카라사이트 humanities myself, one can counter such misinformed arguments, but 바카라사이트 issue is that this is ano바카라사이트r debate misapplied to 바카라사이트 liberal arts as
an educational system, leading to?fur바카라사이트r risk of distortion.

This is a particular problem when US debates translate to 바카라사이트 rest of 바카라사이트 world, where 바카라사이트re is less understanding of liberal arts education.

Lawrence Phillips
Head of liberal arts programmes
Regent¡¯s University London

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