As a Millsaps Student, you will begin
your college education with a set of courses designed to help you
make the most of this once-in-a-lifetime experience. We call these
courses our "core curriculum" because they represent the heart of
a liberal education. Whatever your career goals, this curriculum
will start you on the path to becoming a truly educated person.
What will be expected of the educated
person in the twenty-first century? This is the question which the
Millsaps faculty considered when they began the redesign of the
curriculum in 1990. While no one knows the future, several things
stand out as unmistakable features of the world you will be entering
upon graduation.
Developments in information technology,
primarily as a result of the computer, have radically transformed
our access to information. There are no longer significant
spatial or temporal limits to the availability of knowledge. You
can do a search of library resources anywhere in the world from
a computer terminal in your own room. Because of this new technology,
the world's knowledge grows at an ever more rapid pace. The educated
person can no longer expect to know everything there is to know
- even in his or her area of specialization - but will be expected
to be skilled in finding out what there is to know.
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