Liberal Education Talk: The Blount Scholars Program as a Microcosm of The Liberal Arts in the United States
23. Jun
Online Lecture || 4:00 p.m.
The Blount Scholars Program is a Liberal Arts Program at the University of Alabama. The students in the program major in many different subjects but all graduate with a minor in the Liberal Arts. The program’s curriculum involves both classes that all students must take as well as some elective options.
The Assistant Director of the program, Deborah Keene, Ph.D., will give a brief history of how the Liberal Arts curriculum has evolved in the United States. She will explain some of the social movements, intellectual influences, and laws that moved the American version of the Liberal Arts away from simply copying the British system into its own unique form. She will explain how her program fits into that history and what she took into consideration when updating both the fixed and elective portions of the program curriculum.
This will be an interactive talk as we will discuss some of the key changes over time and deliberate on what a Liberal Arts curriculum should look like in the present day
At a glance
- June 23, 2026
- 4:00 p.m.
- Meeting chat link
- Meeting ID: 985 1078 5360
- Passcode: 435696