liberal arts education

part of the formal education during the Roman Empire; 7 free arts still considered together the basis for a traditional academic program in Western higher education
Intangible academic_discipline Q189329
liberal arts education
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Summary

liberal arts education is an academic discipline[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of academic discipline entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13,038 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: academic major[3], heptad[4]
  • Subclass of: curriculum[5]
  • Commons category: Seven liberal arts[6]
  • Said to be the same as: liberal arts[7]
  • Has part(s): trivium[8], quadrivium[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Liberal arts education[10]
  • Commons gallery: Liberal arts[11]
  • Depicted by: Frieze of the Liberal and Mechanical Arts[12]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[13], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15], The Catholic Encyclopedia[16], New International Encyclopedia[17], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[18]
  • Different from: Liberal Arts[19]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[20]
  • Characteristic of: Studium Generale[21]

Why It Matters

liberal arts education has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 120 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Seven Liberal Arts. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . New International Encyclopedia. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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