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-11 posts tagged "Liberal Arts"
Nicole Caratas | Thursday, October 26, 2017
For author Margaret Atwood, known for novels such as “The Handmaid’s Tale,” stories and story telling are a quintessential part of the human experience. Wednesday, she explained the value of a liberal arts education in the present day. “It’s something that the human race has always done,” she said. “They’ve not always done algebra. … The
Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, August 22, 2017
At Irish Rover meetings, I sometimes catch a sideways glance when the staff is reminded that I’m a finance major. At business events, I tend to get a raised eyebrow when I mention I’m a theology minor. Does the business world need its next generation wrestling with thorny moral questions? Aren’t think pieces in college newspapers
Cole Feldman | Monday, November 21, 2016
Why does a senior college business student sign a $60,000 loan for one year’s tuition, then the very next year sign a contract of employment for a $60,000 annual salary? I’m a business student at a business school, but I might as well be an employee at a corporation. Our business school is a trade
Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, November 1, 2016
In my short time here at Notre Dame, it has astounded me how certain people view the issue of choosing a major. I don’t usually care to point out that, for most people, their major will not be the field in which they go into as their profession. But what truly scares me the most
Elizabeth Hascher | Wednesday, November 18, 2015
About a month ago at a town hall meeting in South Carolina, former Florida governor and presidential candidate Jeb Bush urged universities to consider a shift away from liberal arts education, saying, “When a student shows up, they ought to say, ‘Hey, that psych major deal, that philosophy major thing, that’s great, it’s important to have
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, February 12, 2015
When I entered Notre Dame as a freshman, I was pretty clueless. I learned my freshman year that one of the things I was most clueless about was my Catholic faith, which I had learned my whole life through the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine program and regular church attendance. My freshman (required) theology class was
Samantha Coughlin | Monday, November 10, 2014
I have yet to write a paper this semester, a suspect statement for someone who has justified her complete lack of a social life with the ultimate excuse: thesis. My coursework this semester consists entirely of “making,” which is both an incredibly freeing and extremely frustrating framework. I’ve oscillated a bit between majors and departments
Stephen Raab | Thursday, November 6, 2014
Over this fall break, I found myself with a quiet moment between hectic sessions of “doing nothing” that Christopher Robin would consider excessive. I decided to take the time to read a 1959 essay by British chemist and novelist C. P. Snow titled “The Two Cultures.” Professor Maginn had mentioned the text briefly in my
Madison Jaros | Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Duke University president Richard Brodhead called for “an energetic and aggressive defense of liberal arts education” in a lecture Tuesday that discussed Notre Dame’s recent curriculum review. Brodhead is the third speaker to address Notre Dame students and faculty as part of the University’s annual Notre Dame Forum. Because of the recent focus on curriculum
Christopher Damian | Thursday, October 2, 2014
“I don’t like to hire students who studied accounting. They tend to approach problems narrowly, as though they are clear-cut numerical issues with clear-cut, single-answer solutions. This just isn’t true.” I was a bit surprised to hear this from a partner at a nationally recognized law firm that focused on business law. As a former philosophy