Liberal Learning and the Arts and Sciences Major: The challenge of connecting learning

Liberal Learning and the Arts and Sciences Major: The challenge of connecting learning
Author: Project on Liberal Learning, Study-in-Depth, and the Arts and Sciences Major
Publisher:
Total Pages: 54
Release: 1991
Genre: College majors
ISBN:

This report addresses issues concerning arts and sciences majors, including how students and faculty view the major, the organization of the major in many institutions, restructuring the major, the importance of "connected learning," underrepresented students, and common dialogues across disciplines. Also, the report stresses the importance of the major in the intellectual lives of students and advocates significant changes in the way major programs are offered at colleges and universities across the country. Organizing principles for properly structured majors are discussed; these principles are designed to help the students: (1) develop their capacities to understand and analyze; (2) provide opportunities for students to explore questions and generate their own; (3) help students reflect critically on various approaches to knowledge; and (4) relate to general education in a way that helps the students gain perspective on their own fields as well as others. In addition, the report discusses the elements that are determined to be necessary for every major so that the curriculum structure is clearly understood and meaningful. Finally, examples of promising practices are provided that illustrate the different elements of a well-structured major: curricular coherence; critical perspectives; connected learning; and inclusiveness. (GLR)

Rethinking Liberal Education

Rethinking Liberal Education
Author: Nicholas H. Farnham
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 177
Release: 1996
Genre: Education, Higher
ISBN: 0195097726

Drawn from a symposium jointly sponsored by the Educational Leadership Program and the American Council of Learned Societies, this work looks at the requirements of liberal education for the next century and the strategies of getting there. Rethinking Liberal Education proposes better ways of connecting the curriculum and organization of liberal art colleges with today's challenging economic and social realities. The authors push for greater flexibility in the organizational structure of academic departments, and argue that faculty should play a greater role in the hard discussions that shape their institutions.

Humanities, Culture, and Interdisciplinarity

Humanities, Culture, and Interdisciplinarity
Author: Julie Thompson Klein
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0791482677

The study of culture in the American academy is not confined to a single field, but is a broad-based set of interests located within and across disciplines. This book investigates the relationship among three major ideas in the American academy—interdisciplinarity, humanities, and culture—and traces the convergence of these ideas from the colonial college to new scholarly developments in the latter half of the twentieth century. Its aim is twofold: to define the changing relationship of these three ideas and, in the course of doing so, to extend present thinking about the concept of "American cultural studies." The book includes two sets of case studies—the first on the implications of interdisciplinarity for literary studies, art history, and music; the second on the shifting trajectories of American studies, African American studies, and women's studies—and concludes by asking what impact new scholarly practices have had on humanities education, particularly on the undergraduate curriculum.

Christian Liberal Arts

Christian Liberal Arts
Author: V. James Mannoia
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2000
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780847699599

Christian Liberal Arts articulates the practical, pedagogical, and theological reasons why Christian liberal arts colleges are distinctive in the world of American higher education. Mannoia enumerates the intrinsic and instrumental values of Christian liberal arts, and how both should forcefully shape an institution's goals. He suggests that Christian colleges should strive to help their students go beyond the extremes of dogmatism and skepticism to achieve critical commitment. Colleges must also aid their students to adjust to real world problems without sacrificing academic quality. Mannoia believes that the solution to this challenge must inevitably integrate multiple disciplines, values and learning, and theory with practice, a process from which both faculty and graduates will acquire the capacity to resolve the thorniest dilemmas facing society and the Christian community.

Management Education for Integrity

Management Education for Integrity
Author: Charles Wankel
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2011-09-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1780520697

Explains how curricula should be streamlined and rejuvenated to ensure a high level of integrity in management education, providing numerous examples of new tools, teaching methods, integrity sensitization and development exercises and ethical management education assessment approaches.

You Can Do Anything

You Can Do Anything
Author: George Anders
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2017-08-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0316548855

In a tech-dominated world, the most needed degrees are the most surprising: the liberal arts. Did you take the right classes in college? Will your major help you get the right job offers? For more than a decade, the national spotlight has focused on science and engineering as the only reliable choice for finding a successful post-grad career. Our destinies have been reduced to a caricature: learn to write computer code or end up behind a counter, pouring coffee. Quietly, though, a different path to success has been taking shape. In You Can Do Anything, George Anders explains the remarkable power of a liberal arts education - and the ways it can open the door to thousands of cutting-edge jobs every week. The key insight: curiosity, creativity, and empathy aren't unruly traits that must be reined in. You can be yourself, as an English major, and thrive in sales. You can segue from anthropology into the booming new field of user research; from classics into management consulting, and from philosophy into high-stakes investing. At any stage of your career, you can bring a humanist's grace to our rapidly evolving high-tech future. And if you know how to attack the job market, your opportunities will be vast. In this book, you will learn why resume-writing is fading in importance and why "telling your story" is taking its place. You will learn how to create jobs that don't exist yet, and to translate your campus achievements into a new style of expression that will make employers' eyes light up. You will discover why people who start in eccentric first jobs - and then make their own luck - so often race ahead of peers whose post-college hunt focuses only on security and starting pay. You will be ready for anything.