Exploring, Experiencing, and Envisioning Integration in Us Arts Education

ISBN-13: 9783319710501 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 234 str.

Nancy H. Hensel

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Nancy H. Hensel is President of The New American Colleges and Universities, USA.

Blurb

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.