Liberal education is an approach to learning that empowers individuals and prepares them to deal with complexity, diversity, and change. It provides students with broad knowledge of the rest of the world (e.g. science, culture and society), as well as in-depth study in a specific area of ​​interest (McCuen). This definition implies that a liberal arts education also provides skills as it supports complexity, diversity, and change, something that may well be missed in more restrictive and systematic education methods that limit the courses a student can take to a single study area, or otherwise limited. While useful for that specific area of ​​study, students pursuing that discipline may have a much less versatile skill set than a student educated following a liberal arts path.