(1) noble, small and quiet.

The College of Arts and Sciences only accounts for 3% of American universities, and its predecessor was all aristocratic colleges. Almost all of them are around 65,438+0,000-2,000, and the scale is small, even with 900 students, such as Scripps Women's College of clermont League in California. The liberal arts colleges are all located in small towns or villages, and the public security is excellent. Next to Columbia University in new york, there is only a women's college of arts and sciences like Barnard.

The professor is absorbed in teaching, not in research. There is a lot of interaction with students.

Professors in the College of Arts and Sciences are teachers of real students, who teach students in person, and are graduate students and teaching assistants. Their energy is not to produce research results or to do research. The most important thing is to motivate students. Classes in liberal arts colleges generally range from a few to 30 students. Often in the form of seminars. Because of its small scale, there are a lot of team activities and student speeches. There is no time to distract students, no space, no participation and no speech. So students who are not particularly active in time are forced to take the initiative, not lazy and passive. There are also some liberal arts colleges, where every professor communicates with students or instructs them to do projects every week.

(3) General education, covering humanities, natural sciences, social sciences and art courses.

General education itself originated in19th century. At that time, many European and American scholars thought that the academic disciplines of modern universities were too specialized and their knowledge was seriously divided, so they founded general education, with the aim of cultivating students to think independently and have knowledge of different disciplines, so that they could master different knowledge, with the ultimate goal of cultivating complete and complete people.

(4) Because of its unique campus culture, liberal arts colleges usually have alliance resources of universities. At the same time, they can make up for the shortcomings of colleges and universities through university alliances, so as to realize large U-shaped institutional resources.