Some people simply don’t understand that a degree in Liberal Arts technically means that person is an actor or actress. "Liberating The Arts". They are majoring in theatre, acting, media, mass communications. Their minds are in the clouds.
Liberal Arts = L.A.
Understand?
Um, no.
Theater and music are often in a separate college. Liberal Arts has nothing to do with being an actor/actress.
While Liberal Arts includes the humanities such as literature and poetry, it also includes philosophy, the social sciences such as history, economics and politics, as well as science, and much more.
A degree in Liberal Arts requires the student to have a more rounded education process, studying a bit from different disciplines and not just focusing on, say, math, math and more math like an engineering student. Liberal Arts students are required to learn some history, some literature, learn a foreign language and by extension, learn about other cultures. Learning about philosophy leads to logic which is a big component of advanced mathematics and of course, the entire scientific method.
A degree in Liberal Arts is "learning about learning".
I double majored in college, ending up with both an Engineering and Liberal Arts degree. My engineering classmates all derided the Liberal Arts majors, saying they were just wasting their time, would never get a job, etc. They didn’t get it. When it came time for us to find our first jobs senior year, they realized, too late, the benefit of having a broader education beyond simply having taken the same math and engineering classes along with the other 5000 graduating students from our class.
November 26th, 2011 at 4:24 am
o cool. I thought it means something else also. Yes makes perfect sense. I like liberal arts then.
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November 26th, 2011 at 5:02 am
nice
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November 26th, 2011 at 5:42 am
Um, no.
Theater and music are often in a separate college. Liberal Arts has nothing to do with being an actor/actress.
While Liberal Arts includes the humanities such as literature and poetry, it also includes philosophy, the social sciences such as history, economics and politics, as well as science, and much more.
A degree in Liberal Arts requires the student to have a more rounded education process, studying a bit from different disciplines and not just focusing on, say, math, math and more math like an engineering student. Liberal Arts students are required to learn some history, some literature, learn a foreign language and by extension, learn about other cultures. Learning about philosophy leads to logic which is a big component of advanced mathematics and of course, the entire scientific method.
A degree in Liberal Arts is "learning about learning".
I double majored in college, ending up with both an Engineering and Liberal Arts degree. My engineering classmates all derided the Liberal Arts majors, saying they were just wasting their time, would never get a job, etc. They didn’t get it. When it came time for us to find our first jobs senior year, they realized, too late, the benefit of having a broader education beyond simply having taken the same math and engineering classes along with the other 5000 graduating students from our class.
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