Liberal Arts Gateway

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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.

Departments & Programs

Liberal Arts Gateway Courses by Department

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.

Program Effectiveness Reports

Liberal Arts Gateway Information for

Students & Advisors

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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

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

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