Task 19. Specialised or General

Liberal arts are considered a general knowledge and intellectual skills form of teaching. Graduates will specifically train in a certain area and have specialized expertise in that particular area.

In terms of artists I can see why liberal arts may be preferred as it may bring a different form of creativity due to the different form of education they have had. But they will always need the graduates in order to utilise the software in modern games creation as it’s not simply a pick up and create a masterpiece process.

Programmers from a liberal arts background could again provide a different form of creativity in the way the program actually completes its task and may allow for a more proficient system to be produced. However liberal arts students may not know the capabilities and limitations of programming software and then ask for impossible programs to be created. Also for the actual input of the code graduate students would be needed in order to complete this task as it requires more specialised skills.

I think the employment of liberal student may create a new form of creative input but overall specialised students would eventually be needed to actually complete any of the tasks.