Introduction
In our present world, humanity has a heavy burden on its shoulders. The reason is obvious: the contours of knowledge shift in the blink of an eye in a world where social media and the internet play a major role in shaping awareness and Artificial Intelligence challenges the very essence of human intellect. Our primary burden in the academia now is to develop and nurture the ability to analyze and make sense of these rapid transformations. This is to be done by reflection, research, and intellectual enquiry. A liberal arts degree aims at grooming a young intelligentsia that is informed and intellectually sophisticated, an intelligentsia that possesses a robust historical consciousness and a developed sense of its global bearings. The liberal arts are concerned with essential humanistic skills and talents that are harder to quantify – such as effective verbal communication and strong writing ability, critical thinking, analytical acumen, creativity and eye to detail. Traditionally, they include all non-vocational, non-applied disciplines including areas such as literature, languages, philosophy, history, cultural studies, and theoretical sciences. The School of Liberal Arts (SLA) at the University of Management and Technology is a unique emergence on Pakistan’s educational horizons that promises to create a new generation of informed thinkers, writers, and professionals in multiple fields. The SLA offers several degree programs: BS in Liberal Arts, BS in English, BS in Computational Linguistics, MPhil in Applied Linguistics, MPhil in English Literature, and PhD in English Literature and Linguistics. The Institute has on its faculty many highly qualified instructors, some of them with postgraduate degrees from prestigious universities of the world. With the support of Computer Assisted Learning (CAL), fully equipped Language Labs, specialized software, and hands-on activities, SLA practices cutting-edge pedagogical techniques. A host of scholarly activities are an integral part of the SLA culture – these include seminars, cultural days, performances, lectures by world scholars, exhibitions, and workshops to name a few.
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