Why Study the Liberal Arts?
Competition in the marketplace often leads us to question the value of studies that don’t offer a direct track to employment. But a broad-based liberal arts education does more than prepare you for a job. It lays the foundation for a future career while also preparing you to compete in the marketplace of ideas. Whether you choose to read a poem, peer into a microscope, act in a Shakespeare play, decipher a medieval manuscript, or unravel the mysteries of the human brain, you learn more than facts: you learn to think independently and make sound judgments. You expand your horizons, discover new perspectives, and acquire the tools to defend your point of view. To be liberally educated is to be transformed. A liberal arts education frees your mind and helps you connect dots you never noticed before, so you can put your own field of study into a broader context. It enables you to form opinions and judgments, rather than defer to an outside authority. The foundation for a liberal arts educa
