liberal arts

source: By Herrad of Landsberg - Hortus deliciarum, Public Domain

mainly North American academic subjects such as literature, philosophy, mathematics, and social and physical sciences as distinct from professional and technical subjects.

｟主に米｠ (大学の)一般教養課程［科目］〘専門科目に対して, 語学･哲学･歴史･経済･自然科学･芸術などの学科目〙.

historical the medieval trivium and quadrivium.

(中世の自由民が習得を許された)学芸, 自由七科

liberal, as distinct from servile or mechanical (i.e. involving manual labor) and originally referring to arts and sciences considered ‘worthy of a free man’; later the word related to general intellectual development rather than vocational training.