Hear hear!
BA in English/Classics, minor in French.
MA in Latin - emphasis in Late Republic, early Empirical poetry.
Super-size that for you?
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BA English Comp, minor in psych here.
Working on MA in Technical Communication.
I have a well-paying, non-management job, no debt, a house, a paid-for car, and I am working on getting married.
Liberal arts degrees are not occupational death sentences. I am an engineer with no engineering education, and I run circles around the engineers with degrees in engineering.
Hard science and math degrees only mean you can manipulate numbers. Writing and communication is infinitely more important to an employer. I learned all of my engineering skills on the job and through reading.
Liberal arts education is important, but not as a major, unless, of course. one intends to teach liberal arts courses in college.
Advocacy courses - black studies, women’s studies, etc, should be dropped.
When I was in college, back in the stone age, I had to take courses in Western Civ, English, Literature, econ, political science, sociology, psych, in addition to those in my major. I’ve not been sorry to have gained those insights.
Drop all of the hyphenated crap majors and supply a traditional Euro-centric liberal arts curriculum supplemented by technology and personal finance. A few courses on entrepreneurship and required Constitutional study and everything is solved . . .
A course in liberal irony should complete the experience!
Cool!
How do you say "Seekers of the Red Mist" in Latin?
I think you missed the point. The author is not so much advocating the getting of a BA in Liberal arts. He is saying that without the study of "the arts" all one's knowledge in technology, etc is missing out on essential skills and attitudes one learns from the "arts" and that perhaps a well rounded person should have both the "arts" and the "skills". So get your degree in something that gives you a good career..... but don't forget the importance of complimenting that with "the arts".
So I’m not the only one here.
How on earth did you survive?
BA here here. Concentration on the British Empire and history of science.
Would have a major in History, minor in Physics, but they won’t let you do it.