Reply to The value of a liberal arts degree?

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "The value of a liberal arts degree?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many of the CTCL schools place an emphasis on the liberal arts and sciences. It’s an asset to have some popular CTCL choices in VA and MD. [/quote]

The vast majority of colleges and universities in the USA either require a liberal arts education, or make it available to those in a CLAS (in contrast to undergrad business schools or something like Georgetown SFS). The exception are very specialized, pre-professional schools like Colorado School of Mines.

98% of people graduating with an undergrad degree in the USA have a liberal arts education. [/quote]
This whole thing is based on a false belief among adherents of the liberal arts (insert your preferred name here) that somehow studies in tech, non-pure sciences, engineering, nursing, medicine, business, etc are "vocational" and therefore not as "intellectual" as the pure liberal arts/humanities/etc. When in fact every one of those programs contains a strong core of the liberal arts (language, history, literature, etc) and then add to it. Critical thinking? Everyone of those "vocational" programs requires logical and critical thinking as a minimum ability to succeed. In fact, I would argue that when did my ER and ICU clinicals, for example, and had to serve gunshot victims or children who had been brutually beaten..I was gaining perhaps even more critical thinking skills than the English majors back on campus reading Middlemarch ;)[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics