The First BA in Value Studies and a New European Approach to Liberal Education

BERLIN - In October 2009, the European College of Liberal Arts - in
Berlin, Germany - will launch the first Bachelor of Arts in Value Studies
worldwide, an interdisciplinary programme that represents a new form of
liberal education.

The curriculum is focused on moral, political, epistemic,
religious, and aesthetic questions, and designed with the understanding that
such questions are naturally and deeply connected. Faculty members from
philosophy, literature, political theory, art history and film theory work
closely together on these issues, and the college has no departments.
Students spend half of their classroom time in co-taught ‘core courses’
devoted to fundamental questions about values, addressed through the close
study of texts and works of art that have shaped, or seek to shape, the
values we live by today. Against this background they choose their individual
areas of concentration.

The faculty has been recruited from some of the best research
universities in the world, including Cambridge, Columbia, Harvard, Heidelberg
and Oxford. A faculty-student ratio of 1:7 makes it possible to create a
first rate liberal education based on small classes and weekly one-to-one
tutorials. Students and faculty come from more than 20 different countries
and work together in English. They share the facilities of a small
residential campus and the cultural riches of one of the most vibrant
capitals in Europe. Philanthropic grants from the Christian A. Johnson
Endeavour Foundation allow the college to a need-blind admissions policy, and
no qualified student is turned away for lack of funding.

For more information about ECLA, and a longer version of the
press release, visit www.ecla.de

To schedule a campus visit or an interview, please contact:

Fiona Schnuttgen
Platanenstr 24
13156 Berlin
Germany
Telephone: +49-30-43-733-0
Email: f.schnuettgen@ecla.de

Source: European College of Liberal Arts

To schedule a campus visit or an interview, please contact: Fiona Schnuttgen, Platanenstr 24, 13156 Berlin, Germany, Telephone: +49-30-43-733-0, Email: f.schnuettgen at ecla.de