ihs76
March 3, 2011, 9:15pm
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A liberal arts college traditionally is a small school that trains students in general education and focuses on developing thought processes and intellectual ability. It does not offer programs in professional skills…you cannot become an accountant, a nurse, a dentist, etc… a kind of curriculum that emphasizes providing students with a general basis of knowledge that is supposed to be universally applicable to whatever they decide to go on to do. The idea being that if you know how to think, and you know a little about every major discipline, then you can specialize in whatever you want and still be on solid footing. The modern liberal arts are: literature, languages, philosophy, history, mathematics and science.
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<p>Just to make it clear as mud… The above description of an LAC perfectly fits my alma mater, The College at The U of Chicago which happens to be a research University :D. It had 2500 students when I attended during the Middle Ages.</p>