Location
United States
You'll find that a Bowdoin education is without boundaries. Subjects spill over each other - philosophy is not disconnected from politics, art can be a lens for understanding social change. Somewhere in your life here, you'll get to the point where there is real beauty in what you're doing. You'll look up from your books and papers, scripts and canvases, and realize you've fallen in love with something. It may be a new way of thinking. Or whole new way of viewing yourself in the world.
Bowdoin's curriculum offers a bold blueprint for liberal education designed to inspire you to become a world citizen and leader with acute sensitivity to the social and natural worlds.
Bachelors Degree (Undergraduate)
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Two weeks
A liberal education cultivates the mind and the imagination; encourages seeking after truth, meaning, and beauty; awakens an appreciation of past traditions and present challenges; fosters joy in learning and sharing that learning with others; supports taking the intellectual risks required to explore the unknown, test new ideas and enter into constructive debate; and builds the foundation for making principled judgments. It hones the capacity for critical and open intellectual inquiry the interest in asking questions, challenging assumptions, seeking answers, and reaching conclusions supported by logic and evidence. A liberal education rests fundamentally on the free exchange of ideas on conversation and questioning that thrives in classrooms, lecture halls, laboratories, studios, dining halls, playing fields, and dormitory rooms. Ultimately, a liberal education promotes independent thinking, individual action, and social responsibility.
1982
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