User:WalkingAsGiants/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Liberal arts education

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I feel it is a fitting assessment given my course and the information therein the article may need some historical references.

Evaluate the article
Everything within the article is relevant but the section on Liberal Arts in Secondary School is noticeably lacking and requires more defined citations. In addition, the article provides relevant discussion about Liberal Arts in Europe, the United States, Asia, and Australia, but nothing within Africa or South America nor North American countries outside the United States. It could be worth investigating to expand the United States section to become "Liberal Arts in North America" to include Canada, Mexico, and neighboring islands and their history therein, while also adding an additional section for "Liberal Arts in South America" and an additional section for "Liberal Arts in Africa". While the text remains impartial, the separation of the United States into its own section whereas Europe, Asia, and Australia are lumped together as countries is noticeable, as well as the inclusion of "The Great Books Movement" of 1937 being included in its own section. This section not only needs a more comprehensive assessment or perhaps its own article with a link intermingled with the United States/North America section.

Furthermore, in the Europe section, citations are missing regarding the German history of liberal arts and the claim "Thus, on the level of higher education, despite the European origin of the liberal arts college, the term liberal arts college usually denotes liberal arts colleges in the United States" is made with no verified citation to back up the assessment. Perhaps, once this line was verified, it could also be moved into the starting generalized definition to justify the United States' separation from it's continent in the overall encyclopedia. In addition, within the Asia section, there is a recurring list of Universities in the second paragraph that don't get as much attention as the other countries within the other sections, with the exception being the Philippines. While some compensate for this with links to the official university sites, the Fulbright University in Vietnam has none, nor an approved citation in addition to the little information, which makes its status as(according to the article) the first liberal arts institution in the country very understated despite the achievement.

Right now, the article is a C rated vital article, which makes sense given the Liberal Arts as a whole are a vital part of not just language but also to Wikipedia itself and more information would be beneficial to improving it. ~