Despite declines in the number of liberal arts bachelor's degrees awarded by four-year colleges, the growth in liberal arts at community colleges has made up the difference, countering a national narrative that the field is in crisis. As designated by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act, the liberal arts cover a range of college subjects, from modern and classical languages to philosophy to arts theory. Per Community College Research Center (CCRC) findings, about one-fifth of all community college courses are in humanities and liberal arts fields, with more than a quarter of every undergraduate degree composed of liberal arts coursework. In its study of liberal arts at two-year colleges, CCRC found the number of associate degrees in this area ballooned by 88 percent--from 218,000 to 410,000--between 2000 and 2015. The share of associate degrees in liberal arts fields increased from 38 percent to 41 percent over that time.