‘Technology is not enough. It is technology married with the Liberal Arts that yields us the results that make our hearts sing.’
Steve Jobs.
The Liberal Arts Programme at York St John University is an optional fourth year for students going onto study undergraduate degrees in the Schools of Humanities, Religion and Philosophy, Languages and Linguistics and Psychological and Social Sciences.
Students on this course encounter the interdisciplinary questions and approaches that have shaped both teaching and scholarship across a range of subjects, including: the humanities, religion, philosophy, social sciences, education, languages and linguistics. Freed from disciplinary confines these students confront a vast array of exciting topics, tasks and questions.
And this is their blog.
Study of the Liberal Arts at York St John University centres on the development of critical thinking and communication skills, which are adaptable to a huge range of disciplines, professions, contexts and dialogues. The course is especially interested in framing urgent discussions arising from questions of citizenship, civic engagement and political philosophy.
These are the kinds of questions asked and addressed by this blog.
The course takes place across six modules, exploring York, academic writing and scholarly debate, the human condition, the notion of freedom, future and the environment. Modules include:
- Eboracum: York Space and Place
- Argufying: Rhetoric, Reason and Reflection
- Being Human 1: Structure, Agency and Identity
- Being Human 2: Culture, Truth and Myth
- Freedom and Justice
- Environment, Apocalypse and the Digital Revolution
Along the way, the course welcomes over 30 different academics from across the University.
The blog is about this too!
