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philosophy to consider and begin to develop what they, as philosophers, might have to contribute to discussions about global economic issues in general and the recent financial collapse in particular. We spent our days in the university’s beautiful Villa Academica, seated around a long wooden table in a stately conference room decorated in the traditional style, listening to papers on topics ranging from international economic inequality and development to intranational economic education and rhetoric

3. A liberating foundation in the liberal artsThe roots of the liberal arts (artes liberales) extend back into classical antiquity. Roman education, for example, progressed from basic literacy (the province of the litterator), to secondary school under the grammaticus, and finally to rhetorical education with the rhetor. Rhetoric allowed for a career in public office or the law courts. The achievements of Greco-Roman culture were eclipsed in the West for some centuries after the fall of Rome

. In Luther’s intellectual work lay the seeds of a new vision of free and responsible society. The intellectual structure of the Lutheran reform movement was laid in previous centuries by the twin influences of the medieval European universities and Renaissance humanism. The medieval universities provided the foundations of free academic inquiry through a curriculum shaped by the classical trivium (grammar, logic, rhetoric) and quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy). These in turn

. Through national and international networks, Lutheran colleges and universities collaborate with Lutheran Community Services, Lutheran World Relief, and the Lutheran World Federation to help and support the neighbor in need. Thus, the joyful spirit and tenacity with which Lutherans engage the world is a unique dimension nurtured and proclaimed in word and action on Lutheran campuses. It is an integral part of the academy. Indeed, Luther’s words concerning freedom and service are not empty rhetoric at

be taken before, and not concurrently with, the Senior Capstone (ENGL 434). Students are recommended to take ENGL 300 in their sophomore or junior year. Writing Courses 16 semester hours (12 semester hours upper division) ENGL 311: The Book in Society (PPAP) ENGL 312: Publishing Procedures (PPAP) ENGL 323: Writing in Professional & Public Settings CX ENGL 328: Theories of Reading and Writing ES ENGL 336: Digital Writing and Storytelling ENGL 387: Topics in Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture ENGL 393

present to improve the future, asking “why are things the way they are — could they be better?” We then listen hard for unexpected answers that turn into just and sustainable solutions. Watch This Communication professor Marnie Ritchie discusses surveillance, rhetoric and media. VIEW STORY Questioning Barriers Angela Pierce-Ngo ’12 understands post-secondary success requires questions. VIEW STORY Asking Historic Questions “If we want a different outcome, then we must decide to take actions that differ

social order.  As stability returned in the Middle Ages and then growth in the Renaissance, this memory of Rome became the basis for education:  the ideal citizen mastered what the old empire had bequeathed.  In fact, the first universities based their curricula around the trivium (grammar, logic, rhetoric) and the quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy) as outlined by Plato and Cicero.  The Early Modern, or Neo-Classical, period adopted Classical models even more closely, but with a