University of Notre Dame - Dome Yearbook (Notre Dame, IN)

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COLLEGE A R T S L E T T E R S Rev. Charles Sheedy, C.S.C., Dean of the College of Arts and Letters. 28

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Liberal education at Notre Dame provides the under- graduate with a marked opportunity to advance in spirit- ual, intellectual, and emotional maturity. Cognizance is made of the fact that the student is an individual. The educational effort is personal, with the center of attention the student and the developments that take place in him. In developing the spiritual and intellectual capacities of the individual, the liberal training begins by devoting the first two years to concentration in a general background of classical, medieval and modern thought. The skills of liberal education are exercised through the English language, foreign language, mathematical reasoning and logical thinking. The second two years extend toward a major subject in the student ' s chosen field of concentra- tion. The major is supplemented with such courses as theology, philosophy, and the collegiate seminar, which is a discussion course in masterpieces of world literature in varied fields. The culmination of the student ' s personal work is his senior essay. A question has often been raised: what can a liberal arts gradu ate do? That fact remains, that to be fitted for a specific walk of life is not the purpose of a liberal training. Rather, the graduate is on who can think, analyze, express himself, adapt himself to the rigors of establishing a career in whatever field of endeavor he may enter. It is witli these faculties that the liberally educated graduate em- barks upon the trials of making his life a success. Devere T. Plunkett, Assistant Dean ARTS AND LETTERS ADVISORY BOARD Seated: W. McCullough, H. Ryan, T. Harrison, J. Rose, T. Martin, A. Stepan, Chairman. Standing: P. Heffeman, T. Bran- denburg, B. Griffith, T. Banchoff, P. Hundt, Secretary, J. Mack, B. Dempsey.