Artists take their inspiration from many places.
Courses in the liberal arts, by educating students about not only their own world but about worlds they may not imagine without such education, provide a major source of inspiration. In Liberal Education we seek to make our courses not only a source of inspiration for the arts, media, and communication student, but also to empower the broadly educated artist, humanist, citizen. Some of our courses are more 'traditional' than others, but all seek to impart knowledge of the ordinary and the extraordinary, the mundane and the worldy, the known and the unknown. This is what we seek to make distinguishable in a liberal arts education at Columbia as opposed to elsewhere. We believe that students are partners in the educational process.