Liberal Arts
Overall, a liberal arts degree is commonly described as a well rounded degree. At a liberal arts school the student has to take humanities, science, math, english, and a variety of other classes to earn a degree. Schools that don't follow the Liberal Arts specifications only require their students to take the classes pertaining to their major. As one website I found stated, " Most mission statements of liberal arts colleges endeavor to educate the whole student and emphasize education for its own sake rather than for job preparation."
Personally, I find that a liberal arts degree would be much more beneficial to a student after college than a regular degree would be. Not only does a liberal arts degree include the specifics to the students major but it also contains pertinent information for life outside of college. I am proud to say I attend a liberal arts school because I have the option to learn about other cultures and take classes pertaining to that realm of my life. I love the idea behind a liberal arts school and I honestly believe that the students best interest is in the forefront of the schools' mind.
Although this is late I did do the research before hand. The reason I remembered I needed to post this blog was because I was actually asked what a liberal arts school was and then I was bummed because I remembered why I could actually answer this question.
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I agree with you. A liberal arts school seems to care more about each individual, rather than a class, or the student body as a whole. Especially at Converse, they seem to really care about our needs, and our opinion. They also give us more control of what we do. Maybe it is so that we learn more responsibility, so that once we are out of college, we are already well-rounded, independent women.
ReplyDeleteNice work on the research and writing.
ReplyDeleteThe "education for its own sake" versus "job preparation" quote you mentioned seems like a modern version of the original "slave" versus "freeman" meaning of the term "liberal arts": a slave would receive very work-specific training because his career was completely controlled by his master, but a freeman, who could choose his field, would be given both general training of his mind and speech and also education in various fields so he could be flexible.
I agree that Liberal Arts Schools seem to have the student's future in mind when they decided to teach us about other things besides our major. I love having the feeling that I know more than just music and I have the ability to help people out in other subjects too. Like President Flemming said in convocation, when we leave here we are going to be very independent and well-rounded women.
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Adrienne--You seem to understand the idea of a liberal arts education and to truly appreciate it, which I like. You don't, however, really address the issue of being simultaneously enrolled in a liberal arts college (Converse) and a professional school (Petrie), which is a bit trickier.
ReplyDeleteAlso, think about it all as a future Music Therapist. You'll need lots and lots of generalized knowledge (liberal arts) to be able to understand your many clients, who come from all sorts of backgrounds. And you'll also need some really super skills in things like guitar, singing, and musicianship-type skills (professional school) in order to lay down usable music on the spot as the clients' needs change.
And I'm glad someone actually asked you about the liberal arts!
Yay Adrienne! I was worried you weren't going to make it? There's still a couple of people who haven't posted! Good job over all, I just feel like you didn't really persornalize it (although I can understand the "Crap! Gotta post this!" feeling!) Brava!
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