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Article: UWM to offer master's in liberal studies
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 9, 2000
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While colleges nationwide have churned out computer science,
business and engineering graduates -- and received the bulk of
college funding in return -- professors in the liberal arts have been
thinking of ways to make the writings of Aristotle and Toni Morrison
as popular as the theories of Einstein and Adam Smith.
A cadre of professors at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
will make such a push this fall, when they introduce a new major: a
master's degree in liberal studies.
The UW System Board of Regents is to approve the new degree
program Friday at its monthly meeting in Madison. Small liberal
studies programs -- many at the graduate level -- cropped up more
than 30 years ago at ...