When I went about picking a major for college, Liberal Arts
was one that nearly everyone steered me away from. I always heard “There’s no
job opportunities when it comes to Liberal Arts” or “Liberal Arts is for those
who lack the mental capacity to hold the knowledge that it takes to require
such a field as psychology or biology.”
What exactly
is Liberal Arts?
Liberal
Arts is the broad study of academic subjects such as literature, philosophy,
mathematics, and social and physical sciences all combined into one. Seems
useful to me? Seems to me that Liberal Arts finds a way to build well rounded
and well educated students, that possess the academic ability to hold an
educated conversation in many different fields.
Liberal
Arts also plays an intricate role in the job pursuing field. Surveys say that
employers look for their potential college employees to be able to meet “learning
outcomes” which is exactly what a liberal arts education provides. Employers
want someone who writes better than the average, speaks better than the
average, and reasons better than average. The liberal arts education provides
the creative drive and enables all of the tools for the people with this degree
to do exactly that. Especially now that we’re in a generation where if we want
a job we need to create it, liberal arts provides the education necessary for
someone to create their own job opportunity, for someone to create their own
destiny when it comes to their future in the job world. It is able to expand
your learning and overcome the notion of blindness towards education; it
broadens the awareness to other subjects. These subjects consist of cultural
histories, multicultural languages, it opens the mind to various mathematical
fields, and introduces concepts of many scientific fields.
Liberal
arts produces well rounded students who possess the mental capacity to create their
own job opportunities as well as fit right in to many job fields already there.
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