what does liberal art study of?

Answer 1

how quickly you need to apply to Mcdonalds for a job after getting your degree

Answer 2

My degree included classes in Italian, English lit, history, linguistics, philosophy, and one each of political science, music theory, art history, math, and organic chemistry. The chem was purely an elective though. I may be forgetting something! I learned a bit about a lot, but in retrospect would have liked to have delved deeper into one or more subjects. I think I only took one 400-level course in my degree.

Answer 3

The term liberal arts has come to mean studies that are intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills, rather than more specialized occupational or professional skills.

The scope of the liberal arts has changed with society. It once emphasised the education of elites in the classics; but, with the rise of science and humanities during the Age of Enlightenment, the scope and meaning of "liberal arts" expanded to include them. Still excluded from the liberal arts are topics that are specific to particular occupations, such as agriculture, business, dentistry, engineering, medicine, pedagogy (school-teaching), and pharmacy.

In the history of education, the seven liberal arts comprised two groups of studies: the trivium and the quadrivium. Studies in the trivium involved grammar, dialectic (logic), and rhetoric; and studies in the quadrivium involved arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy. These liberal arts made up the core curriculum of the medieval universities. The term liberal in liberal arts is from the Latin word liberalis, meaning "appropriate for free men" (social and political elites), and they were contrasted with the servile arts. The liberal arts thus initially represented the kinds of skills and general knowledge needed by the elite echelon of society, whereas the servile arts represented specialized tradesman skills and knowledge needed by persons who were employed by the elite.

In the United States, liberal arts colleges are still a particular kind of higher education institution that are typified by their rejection of more direct vocational education during undergraduate studies. Following completion of their undergraduate studies at liberal arts colleges, graduates often do obtain specialized training by going to other institutions, such as professional schools (for instance, in business, law, medicine, or theology) or graduate schools.

In modern academia, the Arts are usually grouped with or a subset of the Humanities. Some subjects in the Humanities are history, linguistics, literature, philosophy, women's studies.

Institutions outside the United States that have been inspired by U.S. liberal-arts colleges include International Christian University, which is established after World War II as the first American-style college in Japan, the European College of Liberal Arts in Germany, the Roosevelt Academy in the Netherlands and Ashesi University in Ghana. This category of higher education does not exist in the United Kingdom, and the term "liberal arts" is very little used in any contemporary context in the UK.

While the concept is rarely expressed in Australia, it is presently becoming more influential in Melbourne. In that city, Victoria University now offers a two year "Diploma of Liberal Arts". Additionally, the University of Melbourne is becoming a US style graduate school, which may cause the less prestigious universities in Victoria to become closer to US style liberal arts colleges.

Answer 4

So what site did you plagiarize that off of JJ? Liberal arts is just what people do when they don't really have a certain goal. They want to get a little bit of everything... a jack of all trades but a master of none.