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Why Liberal Arts Courses: Liberal Arts Helps Your mind


 * 1. You will develop strength of mind and an ordered intellect**. The mind is like a muscle; exercise makes it stronger and more able to grasp ideas and do intellectual work. Exercising the mind in one area--whether literature or sociology or accounting--will strengthen it for learning in other areas as well.
 * 2. You will be able to think for yourself.** The diverse body of knowledge you will gain from a liberal arts education, together with the tools of examination and analysis that you will learn to use, will enable you to develop your own opinions, attitudes, values, and beliefs, based not upon the authority of parents, peers, or professors, and not upon ignorance, whim, or prejudice, but upon your own worthy apprehension, examination, and evaluation of argument and evidence. You will develop an active engagement with knowledge, and not be just the passive recipient of a hundred boring facts. Your diverse studies will permit you to see the relations between ideas and philosophies and subject areas and to put each in its appropriate position.


 * 3. The world becomes understandable.** A thorough knowledge of a wide range of events, philosophies, procedures, and possibilities makes the phenomena of life appear coherent and understandable.

Liberal Arts Helps you Learn
 * 1. College provides a telescope, not an open and closed book.** Your real education at college will not consist merely of acquiring a giant pile of facts while you are here; it will be in the skill of learning itself.
 * 2. The more you learn, the more you can learn.** Knowledge builds upon knowledge. When you learn something, your brain remembers how you learned it and sets up new pathways, and if necessary, new categories, to make future learning faster. The strategies and habits you develop also help you learn more easily.
 * 3. Old knowledge clarifies new knowledge.** The general knowledge supplied by a liberal arts education will help you learn new subjects by one of the most common methods of learning--analogy.
 * 4. General knowledge enhances creativity.** Knowledge of many subject areas provides a cross fertilization of ideas, a fullness of mind that produces new ideas and better understanding.

Wilner, Joseph. The Importance of a Liberal Arts Education: Developing Critical Thinking, Social Responsibility, and Cereativity. November 27th, 2010.  = [] = Art History Summary:

Art history can be traced through the entire history of humankind, from prehistoric cave drawings to twenty-first century art. Today art history has emerged as a discipline that specializes in teaching individuals to evaluate and interpret works of art based on their own perspective. Art history has frequently been criticized for its subjectivity because the definition of what is beautiful varies from individual to individual. Learning to evaluate what you see by building on the art forms you already know can develop your aesthetic understanding. Art history requires you to study and describe what you see in terms of the design elements of line, shape, color, value, and texture. Once you write a response to one work of art, you can compare it to another work of art. An alternative is to make comparisons and contrasts between artists and their artistic works with the mind’s eye. As you explore the fascinating world of art, a beautiful collection of thousands of years of human experience, you will want to travel farther from your home to see works of art in person.

 The great thing about the Internet is that the world’s art repositories bring famous works of visual art to you through online exhibitions and virtual tours. However you decide to develop your sense of art history and appreciation, look for every opportunity to enrich your life with paintings, prints, mixed media, sculpture, and drawings. Often students in the area of Art studies require students to use several different computer programs that interact with their subject matter. An example of this may be the use of projection screen or power point presentation in an art history class. A student with a history major might find a job in many different areas. Field areas range from teaching to architecture. Computer’s are a large part of so many careers that it is highly likely that any job description relating to art history will request computer skills, to keep in contact with other individuals in the field or just keep records organized from research. Information systems and Art history are in accompaniment to one another in several different work fields. It is important that students develop a liberal background in art to be a more well rounded student, and in the future employee. Several colleges now require that students take a certain amount credits in liberal art, to complete their majors. These courses are called General Education Courses. The number of credits varies by the degree lever the student is seeking. Art also helps those convey their communication skills in interpersonal ways that help those with technical backgrounds. Regardless of what area of study, having an understanding of art and the combination information systems can only help individuals reach their goals. Reference: [|http://www.arthistory.org] Empire State GEC for Art **The Arts ** Students will demonstrate: § understanding of at least one principal form of artistic expression and the creative process inherent therein. http://www.esc.edu/ESConline/Across_ESC/academics.nsf/allbysubject/State+University+of+New+York+General+Education+Requirements?opendocument

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