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The Liberal Arts
Author(s) -
Brawer Florence B.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
new directions for community colleges
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1536-0733
pISSN - 0194-3081
DOI - 10.1002/cc.10802
Subject(s) - liberal arts education , curriculum , arts in education , community college , the arts , center (category theory) , sociology , pedagogy , general education , mathematics education , performing arts education , political science , visual arts , higher education , art , psychology , medical education , law , chemistry , medicine , crystallography
This chapter dicusses the findings of six curriculum studies conducted by the Center for the Study of Community Colleges, emphasizing changes in the liberal arts curriculum. It deals with the five major disciplines that compose the liberal arts as they operate in community colleges today: the humanities, English, mathematics and computer science, science, social science, and the fine and performing arts.