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The University is, of course, a microcosm itself, representing the known universe. Undergraduate study in a typical liberal arts curriculum is divided into four categories: Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Physical Sciences. The cases representing these four categories all include similar objects: a vase, a tool, an image, etc. The divisions which distinguish these groups of objects, representing curriculum divisions, are conceptual rather than intrinsic to the objects themselves. The divisions between the disciplines may be equally arbitrary themselves.
