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liberal arts

Collective term for the visual arts, music, and literature together with certain subjects of study, such as philosophy, history, languages, and sociology. The concept dates back to the classical idea of the pursuits worthy of a free man (which were seen as intellectual rather than manual).



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Subsequently, each class offering was coded according to the 1998 Curriculum Project coding scheme, which included 36 liberal-arts and 26 non-liberal-arts subjects.
ERIC Review: An Examination of Non-Liberal-Arts Course ... by Striplin, Jenny Castruita / Community College Review
Mosier concedes that some youngsters may have a hard time absorbing all the information during a liberal-arts lesson.
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