Why Study the Liberal Arts?

Course Description

This course has no specific content, no given topics. It doesn’t try to teach you about a particular subject, time period, or place. No. You the student provide the content. Your work is the focus of this class. Whether you are a dancer, an instrumentalist, a singer, a conductor, a composer, a new media artist, or a recording engineer you will provide the content. We will take what you are doing in your major and look at it from the perspective of the Liberal Arts. You will each have the chance to introduce to your classmates and to write about at least one thing you are interested in—like a particular piece, a technique, an artist, a concept, or a genre. And your classmates will listen to you, read about your interests, and discuss these things as they would a topic in any other Liberal Arts class. You will not only try to express yourselves about your work, but to understand others and their work. You will practice speaking as well as listening, writing as well as reading. And through this communication we will try to build community. For the Liberal Arts are not just a collection of subjects to be learned (and too often forgotten). They are aptitudes and attitudes, ways to build bridges between our islands of experience.

Code

PY.260.301

Credits

3

Subject

Humanities - Liberal Arts