HUM 6355 History of Liberal Arts Education
This course is a survey of authors including selections from Isocrates, Quintilian, Cicero, Hugh of St. Victor, Petrarch, Newman, and many others, examining the history of the liberal arts through the ages, from the ancients up to the present, to see how we got where we are, and to better understand where we stand in today’s landscape of liberal and other forms of education. Rather than focusing on the practice of the arts, as do Trivium and Quadrivium, it explores their curricular development and various reformulations, from Greece to Rome, from the early Middle Ages to the medieval university, and from the Renaissance to the rise of the modern research university.