Why Liberal Arts?

A Guide to Exploring Majors | Why Liberal Arts? | Career Counseling

Almost every occupation requires strong analytical, communication, organizational, team management skills in addition to the ability to solve problems, adapt to new situations and work within the diverse global framework of the world today.

Your Ability to Learn: you can take information that is given, break it down, build on it, create from it and produce a product or end result.

Transferable Skills to Ponder

(Hint: these may come in handy during an interview. Practice describing the specific ways that you have been able to enhance these skills through things such as student organizations, campus jobs, internships, class projects etc.)

• Ability to communicate
• Interpersonal skills
• Adaptability to change
• Critical & analytical thinking
• Problem-solving skills
• Global perspective
• Lifelong learners
• Ability to work in groups or individually
• An understanding of issues of diversity and conflict resolution

In addition to your broad liberal arts education, it is still wise to obtain:

• exposure to business courses; such as finance & accounting
• exposure to quantitative courses such as statistics, mathematics and computer science
• internship or work experience before graduating