| Aim of Liberal
Studies |
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The aim of studying Liberal Studies is to
produce self-motivated & well-rounded, responsible
citizens capable of taking on global challenges. |
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Liberal Studies focus on student learning and not on
teaching. |
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Liberal Studies program provides an opportunity to every
individual to explore, nurture and develop life skills. |
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Liberal Studies program has historically produced the
best leaders, thinkers, scientists, writers, poets and
scholars. |
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Liberal Studies program seeks and develops interests
innate in an individual and fosters them to make them
better human beings. |
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| Outcome of
an education in Liberal Studies |
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Liberal Studies ….
.. teaches you how to think
.. teaches you how to learn.
..allows you to see things whole
..enhances wisdom and faith
..makes you a better teacher
..will contribute to your happiness |
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| Yash Pal
Committee Recommendations pp. 3-4 |
“A large number of Central
universities are being set up. Also several Institutes
of Technology, Management and other areas. During a lot
of discussion in this regard we have also talked of World-Class
Universities.
We would like
to point out that there are no great universities in the
world that do not simultaneously conduct world class programs
in science, astronomy, management, languages, comparative
literature, philosophy, psychology, information technology,
law, political science, economics, agriculture and many
other emerging disciplines.
Indeed the emerging disciplines do their emerging because
of infection or triggering by other fields in the same
university. That is the reason that such universities
are so great and our academics keep going to them.”
pp.3-4 |
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| Yash Pal
Committee Recommendations 2.2.2 |
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At present, much of our higher education is uni-disciplinary
or within a narrow spread. |
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Specialization in a given discipline is only valuable
in so far as it allows the learner to link that discipline
with the real world and contextualize his/her own conceptions
of life and its various phenomena. |
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Wherever education does involve inclusion of disciplines
other than the major one that the student is studying,
it is in the form of ‘subsidiary’ subjects.
By their very nomenclature these subjects are seldom regarded
as serious, either for the assessment they carry, or,
least of all, for their content. |
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In sum, there is a need to expose students,
especially at the undergraduate level, to various disciplines
like humanities, social sciences, aesthetics etc., in
an integrated manner. This should be irrespective of the
discipline they would like to specialize in subsequently. |
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| India &
Liberal Studies |
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We have created no institutions of repute post-Independence,
focused on liberal education. |
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The term 'institutes of excellence' came to be associated
with a new breed of colleges -- the IITs, IIMs, AIIMS.
But these aren't multi-disciplinary colleges. |
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Unlike a Harvard, a Wharton or a Stanford, all of which
offer engineering, medical, management and liberal education
degrees on the same campus |
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Some reputed Colleges and Universities outside India where Liberal arts is offered
- Eastern Illinois University, Charleston
- Elizabeth College ,Elizabethtown
- University of Sydney, Australia
- University of Iowa, US
- Purdue University, US
- Arizona State University, US
- University of Waikato, New Zealand
- Kenai Peninsula College, US
- Bowling Green State University
- Whitworth University, US
- University of Mary Washington, US
- University of Visconsin, US
- And many more Institutes in US & Europe |
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