SOC 1905 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Liberal Arts Education, Trivium
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Liberal education: an approach to college learning that empowers individuals and prepares them to deal with complexity, diversity and change. Social responsibility, communication, analytical skills and problem solving are key. Liberal arts college: a particular type of institution often small, residential that facilitates close interaction between faculty and students. Curriculum is grounded in the liberal arts disciplines. Artes liberales: the historical basis for the modern liberal arts, consisting of the trivium: grammar, logic, and rhetoric and the quadrivium: arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. General education: the part of a liberal education curriculum that is shared by all students. It provides broad exposure to multiple disciplines and forms the basis for developing essential intellectual, viciv and practical capacities. General education can take many forms, and increasingly includes introductory, advanced and integrative forms of learning. Science and math (meets needs for technology)
