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Academic Innovation in Five Key Areas
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Applied Liberal Arts – The selection of key elements of the liberal arts tradition / their combination into intensive, inter-connected conceptual packages / and the application of those packages to all manner of real-world problems
- Inter-Disciplinary Core Curriculum – A unique approach that seamlessly and coherently integrates in a unique theoretical framework: political economy / history / structural anthropology / verstehende sociology / psychoanalysis / philosophy of communication.
- The Centrality of Theory – The key to the Minerva critical thinking methodology is posing the fundamental issue as a choice between two different KINDS of theory: the old theory, theory as ANSWER, which attempts to impose pre-conceived conceptual frameworks on concrete situations vs. the new theory, theory as QUESTION, which helps sensitize observers to the simultaneous structural similarities and differences in concrete situations – whether those situations are political economic / symbolic communicative / or bio-ecological in nature.
- Universal Applicability – Due to the open-ended nature of theory as QUESTION, it can be used as a tool of deep analysis for problems in any discipline or real-world situation. This becomes relevant when it comes to the choice of a dissertation topic, which can be related to a student’s current career situation.
- Unique Delivery System – Fundamental features include a sequential, integrated curriculum / recorded lectures / weekly clarification sessions / relevant testing that make it possible to pursue a world-class quality PhD program while still in the workplace.
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