Welcome to Liberal Arts Gateway!
The Liberal Arts Gateway’s aspiration is to equip students through deep engagement with the liberal arts with the knowledge and skills they need to thrive in a pluralistic society.
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The Liberal Arts Gateway prepares students to live a good life. Living a good life is living an aware, informed life. This is what Aristotle endorses when he suggests that the sign of an educated mind is sufficient knowledge in as many fields of inquiry as necessary to see connections. For this reason, the aspiration to prepare students for full participation in a pluralistic society must include not merely a deep engagement in a discipline, but engagement in learning across the full range of skill and knowledge domains, from the human and heuristic sciences to an understanding of natural and mathematical worlds.
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Students & Advisors
Want to learn more about the Liberal Arts Gateway experience? Watch our student testimonials video above and select from the following list:
Curiositas
Curiositas is a student-run journal dedicated to showcasing student work from Austin Community College that demonstrates the curiositas, an intense, almost meddlesome curiosity at the heart of courses dedicated to studying the liberal arts.
**Curiositas is sponsored by Liberal Arts Gateway.**
Curiositas
Academic Journal
Student Research Symposium
This symposium provides a platform for students from diverse disciplines to present their research projects, fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange. The symposium encourages projects that bridge disciplines, offering solutions and insights that have the potential to shape the future.
**The Student Research Symposium is sponsored by Liberal Arts Gateway.**
The Dean’s Vision
Guiding Principles
The mission of the Liberal Arts Gateway is to save civilization by equipping students for productive lives in a pluralistic society. The image of the gateway is a metaphor of our aspiration: Every gateway opens into a pathway . . .
Liberal Arts Gateway
Faculty Leadership
Matthew M. Daude
Dean, Liberal Arts: Humanities & Communications
Co-chair, Liberal Arts Gateway
Austin Community College
mdaude@austincc.edu
Chris Berni
Chair, Liberal Arts Gateway
Professor of English
Austin Community College
cberni@austincc.edu
“All experience is an arch wherethro’ gleams that untravell’d world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.“
– Alfred, Lord Tennyson
