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CommunityFew things are more powerful than sitting in a group of people from around the United States and even the world to discuss words and ideas that have come to us from across centuries and millennia. > more | OpportunityA degree in the liberal arts is eminently practical. The liberal arts are universal, directly concerned with understanding and engaging those matters that are of deepest concern to all: justice, historical truth, language, beauty, love, honor and the good life — all the intangibles that make us human. > more | JusticeFrom Sophocles's Antigone to Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment or Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” the study of works ancient or contemporary, in Spanish, Hebrew or English, the humanities confront questions of justice and injustice, ethics and right action. > more | ||||||||
Harnessing Powers of Reason, Imagination and Discernment | ||
The study of reason and imagination, which takes place in the humanities, involves grappling — through reading, discussion and frequent writing — with important texts and ideas throughout history and across cultures. The study of other languages enables close encounters with surprising new ways of thinking about and comprehending the world. Such inquiries deepen our understanding of the past, enlarge our perceptions of the present and suggest a range of sustainable paths through the unknown future. > MORE |