Loosely defined, the phrase “liberal arts” refers to courses in Western philosophy, theology, literature, art, and history, with science and foreign languages playing a real but secondary role. For the ancient Greeks and many modern Westerners, the liberal arts have been thought necessary to cultivate good citizenship in a government of the people, by the...
From 2011 to 2017, the number of degrees awarded in history, religion, literature, philosophy, liberal arts, and the humanities went down, by 20 percent or more in some cases.
Universities ostensibly provide students with rigorous training to prepare them for their chosen field. There's more to it than that, however, because if it were only that, the students could skip the addlepated rigmarole that has become an accepted part of what's blithely called "the college experience" (which amounts to hazing or coddling, depending upon one's fealty to the campus's hair-trigger socialist bent) and go directly to a private provider of vocational training.
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