Professional Skills, Cultural Awareness, Artistic Explorations
In order to encourage NEC students to develop to their maximum professional, intellectual, and creative potential, the Liberal Arts department offers rich and varied opportunities for students to develop essential college-level skills in critical thinking, writing, and analysis, as well as important professional and interpersonal skills involving public speaking, listening, and working in groups.
The Liberal Arts department’s broad range of course offerings in literature, history, philosophy, politics, cultural studies, film, science, mathematics, and foreign languages provide students with opportunities to study major academic disciplines as well as cultural, social, intellectual, and political contexts for music. Studios in sculpture and visual art and workshops in poetry, creative writing, and drama provide students with supportive and engaging creative environments in which they can apply the various skills in artistic expression that they have already developed through their musical studies.The department houses The Writing Center @ NEC, where students, faculty, and staff may discuss and work on any writing task, whether course- or career-related, at any stage of the writing process.
