Let’s be clear, a “liberal arts” degree today does not include much math or science. It was not always so (the Quadrivium and Trivium formed the basis for the original 7 liberal arts), and I suspect the lack of math and science requirement has more than a little to do with getting the female half of the population to matriculate.
I’ve always thought that you can determine someone’s intellectual capacity to function in a civilized culture by how much math they can do. No math skills? Neolithic. Arithmetic? Sumerian. Geometry? Greek. Algebra? Medieval Arab. Calculus? Early Enlightenment. And so on.
The great thing about the math is that it acts as a tool for accountability on the narrative dispensed by govts, churches, business, schools, media, etc. Where you have a culture that can’t do math, you have a bunch of people who are going to be bullcrapped their entire lives.
And unfortunately the Liberal Arts curriculum has degenerated into a gaggle of unaccountable narratives based on emotion, spoonfed to innumerate losers who don’t understand that sitting around thinking deep thoughts doesn’t put food on the table.
I made really, really poor decisions for choosing majors.
My first major was in Mythology, my second major was in Creative Writing.
Once out of school and unable to find a job, I got into personal computing (this was back in the early 90s) and taught myself how they work. Ended up working at IBM for a while.