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difficult text. … So I was incredibly impressed with how well they tackled it. They really did get to the heart of the thing. … I don’t think there can be much doubt that Socratic seminar is really good for the humanities.”

Petersen added she hopes to teach at AACC after she graduates.

Hill said liberal arts classes were “never meant to be lecture anyway. I mean, historically, it’s been based in conversation wherever that liberal arts education was happening.”

English professor Timothy May agreed.

“It provides a space where if you want to be active in your education … it provides that space,” May said. “And so [it] really is a place for people who want to be active, to be active, and to break out of an educational model that doesn’t seem to serve them or value who they are.”

AACC students who take BLAST classes and are later admitted to St. John’s are eligible for a $4,000-a-year scholarship to the private liberal arts college, according to Emily Langston, the associate dean and head of St. John’s graduate program.