As a person who enjoyed liberal art college and studied a liberal art major (mathematics), I think some people here might misunderstood the definition of liberal art.
“Liberal art” means “skills of free people”, which by its very history, are useful skills that don’t immediately lead to professional applications, since they historically target comparativly weathy people who are in higher class of society, who don’t need to immediately find work to stay alive.
Not to say we should still limit liberal art education to the wealthiest few, but there is still immense value in these subjects, especially in the long term.
Most of the majors in U.S. undergrad educations are liberal art majors, like physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, computer science (not engineering), economics, sociology, physiology, music, fine art etc. The exceptions are business, law, medical field, and engineering, several of these fields seldom have undergrad programs.
In general, most of the U.S. research universities teaches libral art subjects in their “college of art and science”, which is usually the most popular college in universities.
As a person who enjoyed liberal art college and studied a liberal art major (mathematics), I think some people here might misunderstood the definition of liberal art.
“Liberal art” means “skills of free people”, which by its very history, are useful skills that don’t immediately lead to professional applications, since they historically target comparativly weathy people who are in higher class of society, who don’t need to immediately find work to stay alive. Not to say we should still limit liberal art education to the wealthiest few, but there is still immense value in these subjects, especially in the long term.
Most of the majors in U.S. undergrad educations are liberal art majors, like physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, computer science (not engineering), economics, sociology, physiology, music, fine art etc. The exceptions are business, law, medical field, and engineering, several of these fields seldom have undergrad programs.
In general, most of the U.S. research universities teaches libral art subjects in their “college of art and science”, which is usually the most popular college in universities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_education