Full Description
This book explores the dedication of the New American Colleges & Universities to the purposeful integration of liberal education, professional studies, and civic engagement through the performing, literary, and visual arts. Examples of course level and programmatic integration of the arts are discussed from both an applied practice-based approach and a philosophical framework that posits student benefit from exploring, experiencing and envisioning creativity in their future professions. The authors believe that the development of professional skills in combination with the theoretical aspects of liberal arts curriculum, which traditionally includes music, theatre, art and literature, provides a high quality undergraduate educational experience that uniquely prepares students for adaptability in their careers and engaged citizenship grounded in the ability to think creatively, critically, and ethically.
Contents
1. Introduction and Overview.- 2. Creative Interdisciplinarity in the Arts.- 3. Architecture and the Liberal Arts: A Whole School Approach to Community Engagement.- 4. Playing Chopin, Playing Barthes: Bringing Musical Practice to Reading.- 5. On and Off Screen: The Cinema and Media Studies Minor at Valparaiso University.- 6. A Lasallian Commitment to the Arts and Liberal Arts.- 7. Mindset: Entrepreneurship and the Arts.- 8. The Business in Music at Belmont University.- 9. The Value of the Arts within a Liberal Arts Education: Skills for the Workplace and the World.- 10. Creative Writing for Professional Writing Majors.- 11. Theater and the Law: The Cross-Disciplinary Integration of Theory and Practice in the Theatrical Arts and the Art of Advocacy.- 12. Music in the Academy: Process, Product, and the Cultivation of Humanity.- 13. Gospel Music: Cultural Artifact or Cross-cultural Opportunity?14. Affecting Campus Climate: Fine and Performing-Arts Community Outcomes.- 15. Conclusions.
