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In American culture we are prone to do things fast, as for an education we need to slow things down and learn the basics beyond job preparation. Debra Rosenberg's article "What's College for Anyway?", published on Newsweek, is a debate between educators over the role of a higher education. The debates are involved with three-year degrees and online education. "Teaching Humanity" by Martha Nussbaum, published on Newsweek , reveals that a liberal arts class is needed for every student, and professors in Europe are trying to build those programs. "How Online Education Saves Everyone Money" by Sophie Quinton, published on National Journal, helps students understand how they're saving money for taking online courses. "Online Learning and Liberal Arts" by Steve Kolowich, published on Inside Higher ED, stated that a liberal arts program can be taught online as effective as in the classroom. Pursuing a three-year degree and enrolling in large classes maybe be useful for students who have financial problems, but by doing so will sacrifice an outstanding liberal arts education. All students need the time with a liberal arts class so that students will be encouraged to develop a narrative imagination, an ability to better gain basic knowledge and will give them time to think about their career path. A significant solution for a student with money problems and looking for an effective class would be receiving an online education. Large enrollment classes should not be a solution for students especially for a class as unique as liberal arts. Liberal arts help people understand humanity through literature, music, dance, theater and fine arts. Such classes need to be decreased in size were students receive constant feedback on results of writing assignments. As said in Martha Nussbaum's article "Teaching Humanity", "The University of Oslo, for instance, has introduced a required ethics course for first-year students, but it is taught as a lecture to 500 people, with multiple-choice examination at the end. This is worse than useless."(Nussbaum 19) This evidence is credible because of the use of the University of Oslo, and European professors are not used to that idea. People in Europe are trying to build a liberal arts program especially at Sweden's new urban university, Sodertorn's Hogskola. Seeing that this is an extremely exclusive class, it is only taught at unique institutions, such as Utrecht Institute for Humanist Studies and the European College of Liberal Arts in Berlin. With this evidence Nussbaum made her readers think about the luxury they have in the U.S. for having such an exclusive class because of the fact that Europe suffers from the lack of these outstanding small liberal arts classes. A basic knowledge, ev

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