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A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning

Author : James V. Schall
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497645069
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning written by James V. Schall and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Georgetown professor’s look at the subjects one needs to study for a truly well-rounded education. A Student’s Guide to Liberal Learning is an inviting conversation with a learned scholar about the content of an authentic liberal arts education. It surveys ideas and books central to the tradition of humanistic education that has fundamentally shaped our country and our civilization. This accessible volume argues for an order and integration of knowledge so that meaning might be restored to the haphazard approach to study currently dominating higher education. Freshly conveying the excitement of learning from the acknowledged masters of intellectual life, this guide is also an excellent blueprint for building one’s own library of books that matter.

The Liberal Arts

Author : Gene C. Fant Jr.
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433531267
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book The Liberal Arts written by Gene C. Fant Jr. and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An excellent liberal arts education holds purpose-giving and society-shaping power. But how do we tap into that power and make the most of liberal learning for the glory of God? Professor Gene Fant teaches how to maximize a liberal arts education by outlining its history, criticisms, purposes, and benefits. Ultimately, he shows that liberal learning equips us to become spiritually and intellectually empathetic people who are passionate about serving God, the church, and the world.

A Student's Guide to the Liberal Arts

Author : Wilburn T. Stancil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780823295074
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book A Student's Guide to the Liberal Arts written by Wilburn T. Stancil and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rethinking Undergraduate Business Education

Author : Anne Colby
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118038711
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Undergraduate Business Education written by Anne Colby and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business is the largest undergraduate major in the United States and still growing. This reality, along with the immense power of the business sector and its significance for national and global well-being, makes quality education critical not only for the students themselves but also for the public good. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's national study of undergraduate business education found that most undergraduate programs are too narrow, failing to challenge students to question assumptions, think creatively, or understand the place of business in larger institutional contexts. Rethinking Undergraduate Business Education examines these limitations and describes the efforts of a diverse set of institutions to address them by integrating the best elements of liberal arts learning with business curriculum to help students develop wise, ethically grounded professional judgment.

A Student's Guide to Natural Science

Author : Stephen M. Barr
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497645093
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book A Student's Guide to Natural Science written by Stephen M. Barr and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise introduction to scientific history and ideas, with a special emphasis on physics and astronomy. Physicist Stephen M. Barr’s lucid Student’s Guide to Natural Science aims to give students an understanding, in broad outline, of the nature, history, and great ideas of natural science from ancient times to the present, with a primary focus on physics. Barr begins with the contributions of the ancient Greeks, in particular the two great ideas that reality can be understood by the systematic use of reason and that phenomena have natural explanations. He goes on to discuss, among other things, the medieval roots of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, the role played by religion in fostering the idea of a lawful natural order, and the major breakthroughs of modern physics, including how many newer “revolutionary” theories are in fact related to much older ones. Throughout this thoughtful guide, Barr draws his readers’ attention to the larger themes and trends of scientific history, including the increasing unification and “mathematization” of our view of the physical world that has resulted in the laws of nature appearing more and more as forming a single harmonious mathematical edifice.

In Defense of a Liberal Education

Author : Fareed Zakaria
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393247694
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book In Defense of a Liberal Education written by Fareed Zakaria and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria argues for a renewed commitment to the world’s most valuable educational tradition. The liberal arts are under attack. The governors of Florida, Texas, and North Carolina have all pledged that they will not spend taxpayer money subsidizing the liberal arts, and they seem to have an unlikely ally in President Obama. While at a General Electric plant in early 2014, Obama remarked, "I promise you, folks can make a lot more, potentially, with skilled manufacturing or the trades than they might with an art history degree." These messages are hitting home: majors like English and history, once very popular and highly respected, are in steep decline. "I get it," writes Fareed Zakaria, recalling the atmosphere in India where he grew up, which was even more obsessed with getting a skills-based education. However, the CNN host and best-selling author explains why this widely held view is mistaken and shortsighted. Zakaria eloquently expounds on the virtues of a liberal arts education—how to write clearly, how to express yourself convincingly, and how to think analytically. He turns our leaders' vocational argument on its head. American routine manufacturing jobs continue to get automated or outsourced, and specific vocational knowledge is often outdated within a few years. Engineering is a great profession, but key value-added skills you will also need are creativity, lateral thinking, design, communication, storytelling, and, more than anything, the ability to continually learn and enjoy learning—precisely the gifts of a liberal education. Zakaria argues that technology is transforming education, opening up access to the best courses and classes in a vast variety of subjects for millions around the world. We are at the dawn of the greatest expansion of the idea of a liberal education in human history.

The Politics of Liberal Education

Author : Darryl Gless
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822311997
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Liberal Education written by Darryl Gless and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Controversy over what role “the great books” should play in college curricula and questions about who defines “the literary canon” are at the forefront of debates in higher education. The Politics of Liberal Education enters this discussion with a sophisticated defense of educational reform in response to attacks by academic traditionalists. The authors here—themselves distinguished scholars and educators—share the belief that American schools, colleges, and universities can do a far better job of educating the nation’s increasingly diverse population and that the liberal arts must play a central role in providing students with the resources they need to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing world. Within this area of consensus, however, the contributors display a wide range of approaches, illuminating the issues from the perspectives of their particular disciplines—classics, education, English, history, and philosophy, among others—and their individual experiences as teachers. Among the topics they discuss are canon-formation in the ancient world, the idea of a “common culture,” and the educational implications of such social movements as feminism, technological changes including computers and television, and intellectual developments such as “theory.” Readers interested in the controversies over American education will find this volume an informed alternative to sensationalized treatments of these issues. Contributors. Stanley Fish, Phyllis Franklin, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Henry A. Giroux, Darryl J. Gless, Gerald Graff, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, George A. Kennedy, Bruce Kuklick, Richard A. Lanham, Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich, Alexander Nehamas, Mary Louise Pratt, Richard Rorty, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Redesigning Liberal Education

Author : William Moner
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421438216
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Redesigning Liberal Education written by William Moner and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voelker, Scott Windham, Mary C. Wright, Catherine Zeek

A Student's Guide to the Liberal Arts

Author : Wilburn T. Stancil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book A Student's Guide to the Liberal Arts written by Wilburn T. Stancil and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the the study of liberal arts for students coming into US-modeled college study for the first time.

A Student's Guide to the Core Curriculum

Author : Mark C Henrie
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 149764514X
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book A Student's Guide to the Core Curriculum written by Mark C Henrie and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This slender volume explains the merits of getting an old-fashioned liberal arts education” (The American Spectator). College students today have tremendous freedom to choose the courses they will take. With such freedom, however, students face a pressing dilemma: How can they choose well? Which courses convey the core of an authentic liberal arts education, transmitting our civilizational inheritance, and which courses are merely passing fads? From the smorgasbord of electives available, how can students achieve a coherent understanding of their world and their place in history? In a series of penetrating essays, A Student’s Guide to the Core Curriculum explains the value of a traditional core of studies in Western civilization and then surveys eight courses available in most American universities which may be taken as electives to acquire such an education. This guide puts “the best” within reach of every student.

A Student's Guide to Psychology

Author : Daniel N. Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610170413
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book A Student's Guide to Psychology written by Daniel N. Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Student's Guide to Psychology

Author : Daniel Robinson
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497645123
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book A Student's Guide to Psychology written by Daniel Robinson and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise overview of the field of psychology—its historical roots, its most influential thinkers, and its role in the modern world. Psychology is frequently the most popular major on campus, but it can also be the most treacherous. In this guide, Daniel N. Robinson surveys the philosophical and historical roots of modern psychology and sketches the major schools and thinkers of the discipline. He also identifies those false prejudices—such as contempt for metaphysics and the notion that the mind can be reduced to the chemical processes of the brain—that so often perplex and mislead students of psychology. He ends by calling for psychology to investigate more intensively the problems of moral and civic development. Readers will find Robinson’s book to be an indispensable orientation to this culturally influential field.

A Student's Guide to Classics

Author : Bruce S. Thornton
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497645190
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book A Student's Guide to Classics written by Bruce S. Thornton and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise introduction to the literature of Greece and Rome. Bruce Thornton’s crisp and informative Student’s Guide to Classics provides readers with an overview of each of the major poets, dramatists, philosophers, and historians of ancient Greece and Rome. Including short bios of major figures and a list of suggested readings, Thornton’s guide is unparalleled as a brief introduction to the literature of the classical world.

A Student's Guide to Literature

Author : R.V. Young
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497645077
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book A Student's Guide to Literature written by R.V. Young and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the works of Western literature that have stood the test of time—and discover titles to enrich your own book collection. A Student’s Guide to Literature takes up these questions: In a time of mass culture and pulp fiction, can great literature still be discerned, much less defended? Why is literature so compelling? What should we read? Literary scholar R. V. Young addresses these timely issues in this guide to Western literature and poetry. He demonstrates that literature liberates the mind from cultural and temporal provincialism by expanding our intellectual and emotional horizons. Learn how great fiction and poetry are integral to a liberal education, and visit the classic works of literature again—or for the first time.

A Student's Guide to the Study of History

Author : John Lukacs
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497645166
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book A Student's Guide to the Study of History written by John Lukacs and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoughtful look at the value of learning from the past: “Nobody has done more than John Lukacs to turn the short history book into an art form” (Antony Beevor, Toronto Globe & Mail). To study history is to learn about oneself. And to fail to grasp the importance of the past—to remain ignorant of the deeds and writing of previous generations—is to bind oneself by the passions and prejudices of the age into which one is born. John Lukacs, one of today’s most widely published historians, explains what the study of history entails, how it has been approached over the centuries, and why it should be undertaken by today’s students. This guide is an invitation to become a master of the historian’s craft.

A Student's Guide to Economics

Author : Paul Heyne
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497645042
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book A Student's Guide to Economics written by Paul Heyne and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes economies work—or not work? This concise overview of the field’s great thinkers offers a wealth of information. Paul Heyne, one of the nation’s best-selling economists, provides an accessible overview of the discipline of economics. Economic knowledge, he contends, is not complete without reference to the totality of human society—a realization essential to a proper understanding of the fundamental principles of economics. The sweep of economic thinking is presented here with reference to the great economists and important schools of thought.

A Student's Guide to Religious Studies

Author : D. G. Hart
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497645131
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book A Student's Guide to Religious Studies written by D. G. Hart and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the challenges of teaching and studying about religion in secular academic settings. The study of religion in American higher education is fraught with difficulties that raise important questions about the nature of faith and the purpose of advanced learning. Although religion has been foundational to some of the United States’ most prestigious universities, religious studies is a relatively recent addition to the liberal arts curriculum. As a result, students often take courses in religion with expectations that exceed what professors can actually deliver. D. G. Hart explores the conundrums of the ambiguous position of religious studies in the academy and offers advice about the best way to approach and benefit from the teaching and study of religion in contexts often hostile to faith.