Liberal Arts Savitribai Phule Pune University

Overview

In an increasingly integrated and interconnected world, the ability to connect information dots and integrate knowledge driven insights has become crucial in many walks of social and professional life. Developing such ability entails an education that helps to see the world beyond the tight disciplinary boundaries. The liberal arts education holds a great promise to develop a mindset which seeks harmony in different knowledge fields without diluting their substance.

Liberal arts education focuses on understanding the latent but vital links between the science, humanities and arts. It seeks the freedom to creatively move across the fields of specializations with a view to develop a more humane version of knowledge. It is an enabling and enriching education which helps develop a vision that sees the links between different fields of knowledge. It is an education which prepares students with the intellectual abilities and societal capacities to contribute to, and be successful in a globally engaged milieu.

Career prospects

The Liberal Arts course at Savitribai Phule Pune University aims to give students a competitive edge by training them in a diverse set of themes and skills besides offering a subject centric knowledge. Candidates with Liberal Arts education are sought by various professions which value communication skills, analytical mindset, multicultural and interdisciplinary orientation, and sensitivity towards diversity. This implies that Liberal Arts course opens up opportunities of career particularly in:

• Content development for digital media
• Journalism and other areas of mass media
• Studies of economic, political and social trends
• Marketing and Public relations
• Human resources
• Development sector
• Community engagement through Non-Governmental Organization
• Sustainability studies
• Entrepreneurship

And of course, a graduation in Liberal Arts builds a strong ground for higher studies in various interdisciplinary courses as well as in courses taken up as major at graduation.