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Thank you We sneak in You hear a lot about

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the liberal arts schools what that term means liberal arts

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So a lot of times people think liberal arts means

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liberal politically and it might very well be but there

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are a lot of liberal arts colleges there also a

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little bit more on the conservative side but generally speaking

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liberal arts means it's a small college and they only

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focus on kind of the social sciences humanities some of

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the stem fields they have math and they have biology

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What they don't offer is what the bigger public research

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universities dio like a school of mass communications or a

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school of public health or nursing so they kind of

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concentrate on maybe forty or fifty or sixty Kind of

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small core majors can give us some examples of liberal

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arts schools Um oh yeah liberal arts schools a lot

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of the nest cack schools in new england like tufts

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and middlebury Connecticut college I'm wesleyan there's skidmore in northwest

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You have whitman in california there's pomona and claremont And

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scripts You got grinnell carlton in the midwest in the

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south You have rollins and roads and they're just they're

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all over the country What Are the benefits of getting

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a liberal arts education versus kind of one of these

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broader educations where you could study like you said mass

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communications I think actually a lot of employers are saying

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that they don't actually care what you made your in

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What they're caring about is how you study how you

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think are you able to reason and you have good

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critical thinking skills Do you have good writing skills And

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no matter what you major in at a liberal arts

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college the goal of that liberal arts colleges to make

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you strong and all of those things Whereas sometimes they

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fruit a bigger university that you don't have maybe quite

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a cz much attention from a professor we might not

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come out with a lot of those skills or he

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might be even too focused on one thing and then

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the problem is what if you studied for that one

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thing and that was your focus that was your major

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and then five or ten years after you graduate that

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career is going away So a lot of the liberal

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arts colleges do a great job preparing you for early 00:02:05.998 --> [endTime] wide range of careers Shmoop no

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