by Joseph Yumang, Saint Mary’s College, California Editor’s note: It is not uncommon among GLS students to ask the questions which Joseph seeks to answer in this brief essay. Justifying the choice to undertake studies in a program which has no specific career path attached to it, he finds interdisciplinarity is its own reward, and [...]
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One student’s reflection on GLS
Posted by editor on September 8, 2010
http://coastline.wordpress.com/2010/09/08/one-students-reflection-on-gls/
The endlessly fascinating question…
What are universities for? Or, to be more precise, what are they good for? In the British magazine Standpoint, an articulate answer by Nigel Biggar in which, toward the end, talking about the humanities, he writes: To ask a scholar of history, literature or theology to explain what he does matters is one thing. To ask [...]
Posted by editor on July 12, 2010
http://coastline.wordpress.com/2010/07/12/the-endlessly-fascinating-question/
