‘Words Matter‘, the official blog for the Literature Programme at York St John University, have published a post written by Liberal Arts FY student Erin Byrne, in which she discusses the value of the discipline and reports back on the first module of the course.
The Liberal Arts Foundation Year is a brand-new course that just launched this September and I am incredibly excited to be one of the first students to take it. At the helm is the wonderful and hilarious Dr Adam James Smith who is leading this slightly rowdy but enthusiastic group through the maze of what it actually means to be a Liberal Arts student. In our very first session he got us thinking about what this strange, slightly old-fashioned term ‘Liberal Arts’ actually means, and why it is (and always will be) important.
Read the full post, ‘How to answer life’s biggest questions: Studying Liberal Arts at YSJU‘ on ‘Words Matter.’
