In 1992, the Center for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC) in California examined the liberal arts curriculum in community colleges nationwide through a random sampling of 164 community colleges. Using spring 1991 catalogs and class schedules, course sections in the liberal arts were counted and tallied according to a coding scheme developed in previous CSCC studies which divided the liberal arts curriculum into major disciplines, broad subject areas, and sub-subject areas. After coding and tallying 59,205 liberal arts classes into the appropriate sub-subject areas, a random sample of every 10th section under each broad subject area was pulled. Enrollment and average class size were calculated for these sections. Selected study findings included the following: (1) overall, the liberal arts expanded from 52% of the total curriculum in 1986 to 56% in 1991; (2) the most notable shift in the curriculum was in foreign languages, which rose from 5% to 8.5% of the entire set of liberal arts classes; (3) colleges in urban areas offered a higher percentage of remedial courses; (4) college size related to course patterns only in the provision of specialized classes; (5) while the transfer rate of a college was positively related to the percentage of liberal arts courses offered, there was no relation between the percentage of advanced courses offered and a college's transfer rate; and (6) the proportion of the curriculum devoted to the liberal arts was greater in the colleges that were above the mean in percentage of minority students enrolled. (JMC)