Liberal Arts - Greeks and Roman

Paul Smith

Professor Sara Frickenschmidt

INCC 123

21 July 2013

Liberal Arts started with the old Greeks and Roman philosophers who lived in B.C. times. Those men were all around people who didn't just study philosophy. They studied maths, sciences, arts, language, and more. They're seven areas logic, grammar, rhetoric, mathematics, geometry, music, and astronomy. Specialized knowledge is needed to do certain jobs, however it is believed that everyone needs a general knowledge based on the seven areas above. This separated the freemen from the slaves. During the renaissance education became more important, during this time being well rounded became valued more and so more areas were added to liberal arts than just the seven pillars of knowledge. They added areas were theology, communications, spirituality, arts and physicality. Universities started out with a general, liberal education format. However, slowly, these universities became less and less liberal as technical institutes became more prevalent. Liberal arts institutions just recently became attractive again. The situation began to change once people started to realize that while the need for professionals is always great, there is a more stressing need for workers with well-established transferable skills. It's once again the popular opinion that a well-rounded basic education in several areas is better than very specific knowledge in one narrow range. Modern Liberal Arts colleges exemplify that opinion, by offering a large variety of courses- from English and other languages to mathematics, the natural sciences (biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy and more), social sciences (theology, psychology, political science), and lots more .General education changed also by becoming more diverse.

Four-year colleges offer four-year programs that lead to a bachelor's degree. These include universities and liberal arts colleges. Two-year colleges offer programs that lead to a certificate or an associate degree. These include community colleges and vocational- technical colleges. Universities are larger and offer more programs. They normally offer bachelor, master, and doctoral programs. They often contain smaller colleges. These colleges offer a set of programs in subjects such as mathematics and engineering and so forth. The tuition at a university is higher. Community colleges offer certificates and associate degrees, these programs are normally focused on certain career paths. Community colleges also have affordable tuition. Vocational colleges are schools that focus on certain careers that need specialized training. Some of these careers are nursing, culinary arts, and heating and cooling (Big).

They're three different important types of accreditation which are specialized, regional, and national. Specialized