Liberal arts education is a traditional academic course in Western higher education, which traditionally covers the natural and formal sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Liberal arts tak
Philosophia et septem artes liberales, "philosophy and the seven liberal arts". From the Hortus deliciarum of Herrad of Landsberg (12th century).
Allegory of the seven liberal arts, The Phoebus Foundation
Page, with illustration of Music, from Marriage of Mercury and Philology
Thompson Library at Vassar College in New York
A Bachelor of Arts is the holder of a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.
Liberal arts education
…Liberal Studies and the Harvard Extension School offer an online, part-time option for adult and nontraditional students. Most students earn either a Bachelor of Arts degree or a Bachelor of Science degree. The movement's intellectual roots lie in Charles William Eliot’s Harvard Classics (1909) and in John Erskine’s…
A Bachelor of Arts degree from Northwestern University