Kristi Schultz Broughton Liberal Arts Essay Contest
2009 - 2010
Congratulations to Caleb Hamman, the winner of the 4th
annual $1000 Liberal Arts Essay Contest! The contest offers
students the chance to reflect on the value of a liberal arts
education.
New technologies and social media offer the public a myriad of
options for reading and writing, and the sharing of opinions and
experiences has never been easier or more immediate. But the
immediacy and ease of publication is fraught with pitfalls and
potential issues that provide new challenges for the next
generation of readers, writers, and thinkers. Consider the place of
your liberal arts education in this mix and write an essay in which
you analyze how that education has better prepared you as a
consumer of, contributor to, and critic of the texts that flow from
new media outlets.
Read Caleb's winning essay that addresses the prompt, The
Importance of the Liberal Arts in a Digital Age,
" Mastering the
Digital Age: How the Liberal Arts Can Turn Technology into
Progress."