When was the idea of new liberal arts put forward?

Hiram College clearly put forward the educational concept of "new liberal arts". From 20 17 to 10, the college completely revised the training program and reorganized 29 majors, that is, integrating new technologies into courses such as philosophy, literature and language to provide students with comprehensive interdisciplinary learning.

Compared with traditional liberal arts, under the background of global new scientific and technological revolution, new economic development and Socialism with Chinese characteristics entering a new era, the new liberal arts has broken through the traditional liberal arts thinking mode, taking inheritance and innovation, intersection and integration, collaboration and enjoyment as the main ways, promoting interdisciplinary and deep integration, promoting the upgrading of traditional liberal arts, and realizing the transformation from discipline orientation to demand orientation, from professional division of labor to cross-integration, and from adaptive service to support and guidance.

Its characteristics

The new liberal arts embodies the general characteristics of humanities and social sciences, and at the same time has some new characteristics.

First, strategic. This is the value of the new liberal arts. The construction of new liberal arts should serve the country to cope with the complicated international and domestic situation and enhance China's discourse expression ability in the international community; To serve China's comprehensive deepening reform in the economic and social fields and solve major theoretical and practical problems related to people's ideological concepts and spiritual values.

Second, innovation. This is the attribute of the new liberal arts. The construction of new liberal arts should transform, transform and upgrade traditional disciplines through new discipline growth points, seek new breakthroughs in the field of humanities and social sciences in China, and realize theoretical innovation, mechanism innovation and model innovation.

Third, integration. This is the discipline characteristic of the new liberal arts. The construction of new liberal arts covers the intersection, integration, infiltration or expansion of multiple disciplines in the field of humanities and social sciences, and it can also be a new field such as the intersection of arts and sciences, literature and medicine, and literature and industry formed by the intersection of humanities and social sciences and natural sciences.

Fourth, development. This is the dynamic feature of the new liberal arts. There are many uncertainties in the research of humanities and social sciences, and many new problems will emerge one after another with the development of society, and there is no fixed model for solving problems, which needs to be continuously explored, adjusted and improved in practice.