Areté: Liberal Arts & Business

Clarkson's Areté program fuses practical preparation in business and the traditional subject matter of a liberal arts degree – a unique double major combining leadership skills and humanistic insights needed in the emerging world of global business.

Areté is an ancient Greek work describing the quest for socially-valued individual excellence. It captures the spirit of tomorrow's leaders. Areté students are leaders. They look beyond traditional paths and approaches. And, Areté defies convention: two majors, two advisors, specially designed courses offered in a close-knit learning community.

Areté students help create modules and seminars integrating the elements of both the business and liberal arts programs. Recent modules have included the following.

• Industrial neighbors: leadership through experience
• Management and ethics
• Management in America: ideologies at work
• Portrait of Japan: success in business
• Valuing the Earth: economics, ecology, and ethics

The Areté student group also develops activities, runs seminars, and conducts special classes through teamwork, discussion, and planning.