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"Every liberal arts degree is about finding an interesting way to tell human stories. The liberal arts celebrate the diversity of these stories and also the shared humanity they convey. We understand ourselves by understanding our languages, literatures, arts, histories, and theories of human behavior. When it works, a liberal arts degree is a celebration of what it means to be human."Eric Heyne

A liberal arts education sharpens critical thinking and comprehension skills necessary to navigate life and the workforce, unleashes creative passions, provides opportunities to hone and practice knowledge and talents, and provides a conduit to experience a more fulfilling life. Brandon Boylan

A liberal arts education provides a well-rounded eduction that prepares one to be a critical thinker. Those who have a liberal arts education are flexible thinkers and good communicators. A liberal arts education provides a basis for being a more effective professional, regardless of your chosen career.Lisa Kljaich

Among the many, many benefits that come with pursuing a degree in the liberal arts, one of the most important is the way in which the liberal arts work to "complexify" our thinking. All too often, the way we approach a topic or a question seeks a simple, easy answer that smooths over the rough and challenging way the world usually is. In the liberal arts, we strive to make clear that such answers miss out on all of the interesting bits, usually to the extent that those easy answers are, if not straightforwardly wrong, at the very least unhelpful. (A common refrain in my classes is: "It's more complicated than that.") The liberal arts, then, give students the tools required in order to think through political, societal, scientific, and ethical issues in a way that does justice to all of the complexity of our multifaceted world.Seth Jones