Benefits of a Liberal Arts Education on Effective Business Communication

Benefits of a Liberal Arts Education on Effective Business Communication

Rachel Wilson, Amanda Reboulet
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 12
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3964-4.ch010
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Abstract

With the growing popularity of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) degrees, it is important to understand the value of a business degree coupled with a liberal arts education. Business degrees provide one with a multitude of beneficial skills including analytical thinking, problem solving, decision making, critical thinking, and project management. When coupled with a liberal arts education, business degrees become even more powerful providing young professionals with a competitive advantage by creating a more well-rounded individual with a broader education base. In addition to the benefits of a business degree, the liberal arts education provides increased leadership skills, creativity and innovation, adaptability, and both richer native communication and foreign language skills. This chapter focuses on how a liberal arts education provides one with more pronounced, stronger communication skills both written and orally, which directly provides value to businesses.
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Without education the mind can easily become yoked to one’s most base nature. Most scholars credit Greek philosophers such as Plato and Roman orators such as Cicero for developing the idea of a liberal educations (Arsene, 2012; Kimball, 1995) with the goal of liberating the mind. Indeed, the Greek desire to have cities ruled by citizens required a thoughtfully educated citizen with knowledge of the “fundamental ‘liberating’ arts of grammar, logic, and rhetoric” (Simmons, 2018, p. 100). Of course, while the idea of a liberal education survived the middle ages, the Renaissance and Reformation for the larger part of human history, such an ideal education was reserved for the elite and almost exclusively male.

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