A Student's Guide to the Core Curriculum
ISBN: 9781497645141
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / ISI Books
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Subjects: Education;

"This slender volume explains the merits of getting an old-fashioned liberal arts education" ( The American Spectator ).

College students today have tremendous freedom to choose the courses they will take. With such freedom, however, students face a pressing dilemma: How can they choose well? Which courses convey the core of an authentic liberal arts education, transmitting our civilizational inheritance, and which courses are merely passing fads? From the smorgasbord of electives available, how can students achieve a coherent understanding of their world and their place in history? In a series of penetrating essays, A Student's Guide to the Core Curriculum explains the value of a traditional core of studies in Western civilization and then surveys eight courses available in most American universities which may be taken as electives to acquire such an education. This guide puts "the best" within reach of every student.

Mark C. Henrie served for many year as Senior Vice President and Chief Academic Officer of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. He holds degrees from Dartmouth, Cambridge, and Harvard. His articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications. He serves on the editorial and advisory council of First Things magazine and is a member of the board of visitors of Ralston College in Savannah, Georgia. He is also a founding member of the board of directors of the Center for European Renewal (The Hague, Netherlands) and of Regina Luminis Academy, a classical school in Downingtown, Pennsylvania.

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