Literacy, Science, Liberal Arts, and Education

Science at Liberal Arts Colleges : A Better Education ?

IT WAS THE SUMMER OF 1970. Carol and I had spent four years at Grinnell College, located in the somnolent farming community of Grinnell, Iowa. Now, newly married, we drove westward, where we would enter the graduate program in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. How would our liberal arts education serve us in the Ph.D. program of one of the world’s great research universities?...

Liberal Arts and Distance Education : Can Socratic Virtue ( αρετε ) and

"The diversity of cultures in this world is really important. It's the richness that we have which, in fact, will save us from being caught up in one big idea." 1 " Globalization must not be a new version of colonialism. It must respect the diversity of cultures which, within the universal harmony of peoples, are life's interpretative keys." Pope John Paul II 2 " If people use this system [of s...

Perspectives on Faith, the Liberal Arts, and Computer Science

A Christian liberal arts education seeks to explore several fundamental questions: What does it mean to be human? For what purpose did God create us? How do we develop to our full human potential? What sets us free, liberates us, to be all that God intends us to be? In Genesis, we learn that to be human is to be created in the image of God; to bear the image of God. To be human is to rule over ...

Liberal Arts and Medicine The Liberal Arts and Medicine: How the Liberal Arts Tradition Can Impact Health Care Reform

A New Approach To Computer Science in the Liberal Arts

In the following we make the case for a new course for introducing computer science in the liberal arts classroom. The course is related to breadthfirst computer science, but is aimed at developing a broad course suitable for non-majors to gain a comprehensive overview of computer science beyond its algorithmic and mathematic fundamentals. One of the aims of the libreral arts philosphy is to pr...