The Bachelor of Liberal Arts (BLA or ALB) is the title of an
undergraduate
Undergraduate education is education conducted after secondary education and before postgraduate education. It typically includes all postsecondary programs up to the level of a bachelor's degree. For example, in the United States, an entry-lev ...
bachelor's degree
A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six ...
. Generally, it is awarded to students who major in
liberal arts
Liberal arts education (from Latin "free" and "art or principled practice") is the traditional academic course in Western higher education. ''Liberal arts'' takes the term ''art'' in the sense of a learned skill rather than specifically the ...
, pursue
interdisciplinary studies
Interdisciplinarity or interdisciplinary studies involves the combination of multiple academic disciplines into one activity (e.g., a research project). It draws knowledge from several other fields like sociology, anthropology, psychology, ec ...
, or design their own concentrations.
Often a ''Bachelor of Liberal Arts'' degree is undertaken with the help of a faculty advisor. A candidate designs a unique course of study that sometimes culminates in a thesis or capstone project. A Bachelor's in Liberal Arts allows students to pursue multiple fields in the form of a dual major or a minor in a certain field.
Harvard Extension School
Harvard Extension School (HES) is the extension school of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school is one among 12 schools that grant degrees and falls under the Division of Continuing Education in the Harvard Faculty of Arts ...
awards the Bachelor of Liberal Arts in Extension Studies degree to completion of its degree program. Earlier in 2019, the dean Huntington D. Lambert repeatedly expressed his dissatisfaction with this degree name to the Harvard Corporation, the university's highest governing body, claiming the degree name as "academically wrong."
In 2022,
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ...
began to offer a BLA to people incarcerated at the
Patuxent Institution
The Patuxent Institution is located in Jessup, Maryland one mile east of U.S. Route 1 on Maryland Route 175. It is a treatment-oriented maximum-security correctional facility. With a maximum static capacity of 987 beds, it offers the most dive ...
in
Jessup, Maryland
Jessup ( ) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Howard and Anne Arundel counties, about southwest of Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 10,535.
Geography
Jessup is located at (3 ...
through the Georgetown Prisons and Justice Initiative, with an inaugural class of 25 students.
References
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