We're proud of our programs and courses in Business, Marketing, Finance, and Economics -- and we're just as proud of the distinguished faculty that presents these programs and teaches these courses, preparing our students for their place in the global market.
But the University's "Manchester experience" is much more than this! There is also a world of culture, to which we are all heir, just beyond the horizon, and that is the "business" of our Humanities programs and the faculty that presents the courses in history, literature, philosophy, art, music, religion, and mythology -- the Humanities -- preparing our students with a better understanding and appreciation of the common threads, the shared unities and diversities, of the human experience.
As a cultural historian, my particular areas of familiarity are, to be sure, in the Humanities. But in a world that's becoming increasingly interconnected, with the "Family of Man" living ever closer together, we in the Humanities are -- along with our colleagues in the disciplines of business and economics -- contributing to America's global economic future.
Preparing students for leadership -- local, national, international -- involves more than the development of technical and professional skills. It involves the stimulation of critical habits of thought and a genuine interest in the central ideas and traditions which have shaped our world. An educated, active citizenry, mindful of its past and understanding of its present, is the surest guarantee for its place in the future.
A liberal education is indeed preparation for a lifetime of learning and a lifetime of service, and the Humanities programs at UNH Manchester provide students the opportunity to do just that -- to develop to the fullest their personal and public potential. That's the "business" of the Humanities programs at UNH Manchester.
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Andrew Laurie Stangel has teaches art history courses at UNH Manchester. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UCLA and completed his graduate study in history and civilization at the Universities of Wisconsin and California.
