The building works that created the School of Liberal Arts physical infrastructure, staff offices and the SOLA Student Lounge were completed in mid-December 2019.

The team responsible for the University’s art collection put the finishing touches on our corridors shortly after, bringing them to life them with an array of beautiful paintings, including Joe Tilson’s 2005 series: The Nine Muses.

These are some ‘before’ photos!

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Our new School of Liberal Arts enjoyed a spectacular launch event to celebrate its opening of at the end of February. Our students, their families and academic staff were able to come together in fellowship at the start, rather than at the end, of their course of study to celebrate the significant achievement of those who had been awarded UOW Ramsay Scholarships.

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Free, open-minded thinking and open-ended inquiry – that is what Hutchins took to be animating spirit of The Great Conversation that has been underway for millennia. As he put it, “the spirit of Western civilisation is the spirit of inquiry … Nothing is to remain undiscussed. Everybody is to speak [their] mind. No proposition is to be left unexamined.”, Robert Hutchins, 1952 The Great Conversation.

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Here is the latest ABC Illawarra interview about the School of Liberal Arts and its BA in Western Civilisation –  which took place 2 March 2020 on the Breakfast show hosted by Melinda James.
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The School of Liberal Arts invites applications for two Senior Lecturer positions.

The principal duties of the posts are to deliver specific subjects within our Bachelor of Arts in Western Civilisation degree. These positions will be offered for a 7-year fixed-term period.

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We are delighted to announce that the first set of academic staff appointments have joined the School Liberal Arts. We have attracted and appointed five high quality academics, each with impressive teaching and research profiles relative to their career-stage.

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This morning Brian Leiter tweeted the following entry from his world famous Philosophy blog. I am delighted that, as we gear up for its official opening of doors in February 2020, the School of Liberal Arts has been presented in such a positive light to the academic community worldwide.

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