liberal arts
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- noun
- /ˈlɪbərəl ɑrts/
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humanidades
- A liberal arts education encourages critical thinking and creativity rather than just vocational training.
- liberal arts college
- liberal arts education
- liberal arts curriculum
But I got a great, I think liberal arts education.
- But I got a great, I think liberal arts education.
- You really do need a liberal arts education.
- It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities that yields us.
- In the Middle Ages, philosophy was what the in the West, what the seven liberal arts flowed into.
- Focuses on liberal arts, Doesn't offer a graduate degrees, stays small.
- And they they provide a classical, what used to be a liberal education, liberal arts education.
- I studied, you know, liberal arts education at Loyola University in New Orleans.
- University of North Carolina near me has just created a new separate school that is about discourse and liberal arts.
- But most of you out there taking liberal arts and sociology and, you know, business classes and you want to get a marketing degree.
- All of us liberal arts teachers teaching for Ball State, we're kind of out on our, our own as the prison program closes.
- And look, it's, I don't think it's fair or, or nice even to compare a liberal arts degree to a skilled trade.
- Studied the studied liberal arts in school, loves art.
- I suppose you know that that Yale is a liberal arts.
Examples
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Who benefits from the liberal arts: society or the individual recipient of the liberal arts?
Academic text (1999) -
I studied, you know, liberal arts education at Loyola University in New Orleans.
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But I got a great, I think liberal arts education.
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You really do need a liberal arts education.
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I was glad then, in that moment, to have a good liberal arts education.
Fiction book (1999) -
We are the home of the liberal arts at Stanford.
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Now let's assume that like many, you want a liberal arts education.
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The liberal arts course pays off after all.
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It's a liberal arts college in Vermont.
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The only formal education he had was the beginning of a liberal arts degree and his CPA certification.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
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Subjects taught at university that focus on knowledge and thinking skills like history and languages
A subject like philosophy or literature that teaches general knowledge and thinking skills
Subjects that study human culture and ideas, like literature and history
How Broad
Surface Forms
Morphology
There is a clear compositional clue: 'liberal' can connote broad or non-restrictive and 'arts' refers to academic subjects, so a learner could infer a sense of wide-ranging, non-vocational studies. However, the precise institutional meaning (the specific academic category contrasted with professional or vocational training) is a conventionalized, somewhat specialized sense that many B1 learners would not fully predict without prior exposure, so it is only partly transparent.
Etymology
Liberal arts comes from old Latin where liberal meant 'free' and arts meant skills or studies. One popular story says these were the subjects free people learned to think and speak well, so today liberal arts means broad studies that give 'general knowledge' rather than training for a single 'job'.