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margin-right: 10px;\"><span class=\"office\"> Office:<\/span> <strong>5D.10 <\/strong><\/div><div style=\"display:inline-block; margin-right:5px;\"><span class=\"local\">Local:<\/span> <strong><a style=\"cursor:text;\" href=\"tel:514-931-8731,4428\">4428<\/a><\/strong><i data-title=\"T: 514-931-8731\" class=\"fa fa-info-circle tooltip\"><\/i><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n        <style>\n            .highlight{ padding: 20px; padding-bottom: 12px; margin: 15px 0; overflow: hidden; width: 100%;}\n            .highlight.white{ background-color: #f8f8f8; border: 1px solid #d1d1d1; }\n            .highlight.blue{ background: #ADD2FF; background:rgba(173, 210, 255, 0.33);  }\n            .highlight.red{ background: #ff7979; }\n            .highlight.orange{ background: #F7A95C; }\n            .highlight.green{ background: #D3F5D6; }\n            .highlight.purple{ background: #CF9BFA; }\n            .highlight.yellow{ background:#fff6c0; }\n            .highlight.dark{ background: #333; 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haven\u2019t yet decided which path to follow<\/li>\n<li><b>You want the chance to \u201ccustomize\u201d your DEC through option courses<\/b> in the Social Science, Science, Visual Arts, and Arts, Literature &amp; Communication programs or in Math<\/li>\n<li><b>You want to enter university with the best possible foundation in knowledge and skills needed to succeed,<\/b> regardless of what field you choose: law, history, literature, philosophy, psychology, political science, classics, international development, journalism, communications, business administration, linguistics, and more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<a class=\"link-to-img\" href=\"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/liberal-arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/liberal-arts.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-116\" src=\"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/liberal-arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/liberal-arts.png\" alt=\"liberal arts\" width=\"1108\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/liberal-arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/liberal-arts.png 1108w, https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/liberal-arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/liberal-arts-800x347.png 800w, https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/liberal-arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/liberal-arts-768x333.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1108px) 100vw, 1108px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>The liberal arts are based on the belief that disciplined learning builds one&#8217;s personal intellectual life and career. In medieval universities, the seven liberal arts were grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. While the modern liberal arts are conceived somewhat differently, they pursue the same tradition of ordered learning to cultivate the mind.<\/p>\n<p>At Dawson College, Liberal Arts is a two-year honours pre-university program. The carefully constructed curriculum is composed of required courses and seminars in classics, English, history, humanities and philosophy, as well as options in other disciplines.<\/p>\n<p>This broad survey of the history, intellectual and creative heritage of our civilization is designed to provide students with a strong foundation of knowledge and skills appropriate to university studies in most faculties outside architecture, engineering and the physical sciences. The program emphasizes a wide range of critical reading, leading to the effective expression of thought in writing and oral argument.<\/p>\n<h3>Students will develop and demonstrate the capacity for<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Critical thought and reflection<\/li>\n<li>Personal responsibility and ethical discernment<\/li>\n<li>Cogent, well-formed oral and written expression<\/li>\n<li>Informed aesthetic responses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t<style>\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t.dc_accordion .dc_accordion-body:before{\n\t\t\t\tdisplay: block;\n\t\t\t\theight: 10px;height: 1rem;\n\t\t\t\tcontent: \"\";\n\t\t\t}\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\n\t\t<\/style>\n\n\n\t\t<div id=\"why-study-the-liberal-arts\" class=\"new dc_accordion  multiple\" style=\"\" ><h2 class=\"dc_accordion-title highlighta\" ><a class=\"\" style=\"\" href=\"#why-study-the-liberal-arts\">Why study the Liberal Arts?<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"dc_accordion-body \" style=\"\" ><p><strong>Graduates of our Liberal Arts Program have pursued a wide variety of university programs in Canada and abroad including<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Harvard,<\/li>\n<li>Yale,<\/li>\n<li>Brown,<\/li>\n<li>McGill,<\/li>\n<li>Concordia,<\/li>\n<li>Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al,<\/li>\n<li>University of Toronto,<\/li>\n<li>University of Ottawa,<\/li>\n<li>York University,<\/li>\n<li>Oxford University,<\/li>\n<li>University of Cambridge,<\/li>\n<li>London School of Economics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In the following areas of study:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Law<\/li>\n<li>Arts and humanities<\/li>\n<li>Commerce<\/li>\n<li>Communications<\/li>\n<li>Journalism<\/li>\n<li>Management\/administration<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"professions-of-our-graduates\" class=\"new dc_accordion  multiple\" style=\"\" ><h2 class=\"dc_accordion-title highlighta\" ><a class=\"\" style=\"\" href=\"#professions-of-our-graduates\">Professions of our graduates<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"dc_accordion-body \" style=\"\" ><ul>\n<li>Lawyer<\/li>\n<li>University professor<\/li>\n<li>Investment banker<\/li>\n<li>Journalist<\/li>\n<li>Psychologist<\/li>\n<li>Entrepreneur<\/li>\n<li>Architect<\/li>\n<li>Physician<\/li>\n<li>Writer<\/li>\n<li>Photographer<\/li>\n<li>Translator<\/li>\n<li>Music producer\u2026and many more!<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"testimonials\" class=\"new dc_accordion  multiple\" style=\"\" ><h2 class=\"dc_accordion-title highlighta\" ><a class=\"\" style=\"\" href=\"#testimonials\">Testimonials<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"dc_accordion-body \" style=\"\" ><blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s technology married with <b>l<\/b><b>iberal arts<\/b><b>,<br \/>\n<\/b>married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our heart sing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8211;Steve Jobs<br \/>\nCo-founder of<br \/>\nApple Computer, Inc<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I personally think there&#8217;s going to be a greater demand in 10 years for<br \/>\n<b>Liberal arts majors<br \/>\n<\/b>than there were for programming majors and maybe even engineering,&#8221; he said. &#8220;When the data is all being spit out for you, options are being spit out for you, you need a different perspective in order to have a different view of the data.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8211;Mark Cuban<br \/>\nForbes Magazine (Feb. 2017)<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Program Brochure Admissions Liberal Arts is for you if You love learning about history, literature, philosophy, humanities, the arts and all the connections between them! 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