PORT 122 - Liberal Arts Seminar

Institution:

Virginia Wesleyan University

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Description:

What are the liberal arts, and why spend four good years studying them? In the U.S., the liberal arts are housed institutionally in colleges and the undergraduate programs of universities. In this context, the two questions from the first sentence in this paragraph may be rephrased as: What are colleges? What are they for? How do they try to accomplish their goals? These questions are approached in several ways. One is historical. How did colleges in general, and VWC in particular, get to be the way they (it) are (is)? Where do the various ideas of what it means to be liberally educated come from? A second is more philosophical. What does it mean to know something? How would you teach, given different answers to that question? Another is normatively. What should colleges in general be doing? What kind of curriculum should we, at Virginia Wesleyan, have? Offered each spring.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.vwu.edu

Phone Number:

(757) 455-3200

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Four-one-four plan

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