liberal arts

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

liberal arts
    n 1: studies intended to provide general knowledge and
         intellectual skills (rather than occupational or
         professional skills); "the college of arts and sciences"
         [syn: {humanistic discipline}, {humanities}, {liberal
         arts}, {arts}]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

26 Moby Thesaurus words for "liberal arts":
      academic specialty, area, classical education, core curriculum,
      course, course of study, curriculum, discipline, elective, field,
      general education, general studies, humanities, major, minor,
      proseminar, quadrivium, refresher course, scientific education,
      seminar, specialty, study, subdiscipline, subject,
      technical education, trivium

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