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  1. 1. What is your type of degree / major?

    • STEM (computer science too)
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    • Liberal arts
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    • Other (please explain below)
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7 hours ago, EPENEX said:

I'm a useless NEET.

What's your passion? School isn't for everyone. Linus is self educated and Luke dropped out of college.

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8 hours ago, WhiteJaguar77 said:

AS-T in computer science and mathematics. From there I'll be working on finishing my Bachelor's degree in Mathematics. Maybe will get a PhD in it too.

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It’s been years since I studied Biostatistics and I don’t remember most of it other than taking the mean, median and mode. Also that pesky IBM SPSS.

 

Tbh I’d rather study differential/integral calculus rather than statistics which unfortunately is needed for epidemiologic studies. :dry:

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3 hours ago, James Evens said:

At my uni it is bachelor of arts and it think this is where it should belong. Law is just made by humans so there is no clear right or wrong like in any humanities. 

That's not really how colleges and universities differentiate between STEM fields and the liberal arts.

Psychology, for example, is considered a part of the liberal arts at most universities, but I would be hard pressed to not call psychology a science with right and wrong answers.

The same with social science and anthropology.  

 

In regards to law there are quite clear right and wrong answers. 

The practice of law is based on, strangly enough, the law and supporitng sources of law. Those usually gives you a clear answer. 

 

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8 minutes ago, Volbet said:

Psychology, for example, is considered a part of the liberal arts at most universities, but I would be hard pressed to no call psychology a science with right and wrong answers.

Curious. My Psychology degree is a Bachelor of  Science (then again, it is almost half a century old).

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15 hours ago, MandoPanda said:

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I got a PHD and a BS from the University of Hard Knocks which is an accelerated curriculum.

 

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right now looking and applying under Aerospace Engineering. 

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37 minutes ago, Lady Fitzgerald said:

Curious. My Psychology degree is a Bachelor of  Science (then again, it is almost half a century old).

It is quite curious. 

I honestly don't put much faith in the classification of "liberal arts". There are even universities that class mathematics as a liberal art. 

Again, I can't think of any reason as to why psychology shouldn't be considered a science, especially in this day and age. 

 

I do find my current university's classifications more accurate than just throwing stuff into STEM and liberal arts. 

You basically have departments of natural science (medicin, chemistry, biology, etc.), social sciences (psychology, anthropology, political science, etc.), law, theology and the humanities (languages, music, history, ect.).

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2 hours ago, Lady Fitzgerald said:

Curious. My Psychology degree is a Bachelor of  Science (then again, it is almost half a century old).

This is my experience as well (with the awarding of the degree I don't have a psyc degree), I can't think of a university there its an arts degree.

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7 minutes ago, James Evens said:

Law is based on social fundamental values and these can change. What was right years ago can be outdated today but might be valid in some years again. With science what was proved wrong will be always wrong

 

You're conflating the practice of law with the creation and execution of law.

 

The practice of law is based on certain principles like legal positivism and legal dogmatism, and while they're certainly not scientific in nature, they're also far from the purely argumentive approach of most liberal arts.

 

Just because the data change it doesn't mean the methode will.

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3 hours ago, Canada EH said:

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It's really astounding how you could politicize a simple question.

 

I really was just curious about people's choice in degree (and there's an 'other' option too) but I didn't mean to shit on people without degrees at all. You seem really touchy about degrees or institutions that offer degrees, and I'm sure you have spent plenty of time and conversations with people about your thoughts on the matter and the fact that a degree is not required to go places in this life. 

 

I don't discount people who do not have a college degree. I do not believe that college is for everyone. I do believe that people can do great things without college degrees (as you yourself have proven). But if we start to shit on liberal arts degrees and institutionalized education as a whole we are going down a dark path. There's the old phrase that I hate to bring up 'history repeats itself'. If we are all middle educated people who focus on our daily jobs to bring in income, who will study the past and the larger trends to tell us when we are headed for a bad place or about to repeat a disaster?

 

I agree with your point that there is a large employment gap in America that has to do with a lack of middle educated folks. Notice here that when I say educated, it does not necessarily mean a degree or other conventional methods of schooling, but it means education which can be acquired through several different means including apprenticeship or self taught methods.

 

Where an issue arises is when you need to prove your education. This is the nice part of an institution that can give you a paper that says 'I know how to deal with the system, turn things in on time, deal with authority, and pay enough attention to pass my classes'. Employers look at this and know that the individual can at least work with the system and can become a good cog in the machine. Whereas someone who cannot prove their education via a degree or certificate will have a tougher time to prove themselves without the help of the good word of a mentor or someone who can vouch for their knowledge.

 

Like with many things in this life, it is not black or white. There is a middle road. Neither one path or the other should be glorified or demonized. 

 

Personally, as long as you are doing something that you are passionate about, that is all that matters.

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9 hours ago, Volbet said:

...Psychology, for example, is considered a part of the liberal arts at most universities, but I would be hard pressed to not call psychology a science with right and wrong answers...

 

 

8 hours ago, Lady Fitzgerald said:

Curious. My Psychology degree is a Bachelor of  Science (then again, it is almost half a century old).

 

6 hours ago, it_dont_work said:

This is my experience as well (with the awarding of the degree I don't have a psyc degree), I can't think of a university there its an arts degree.

After I posted last night, curiosity got the better of me and I did a bit of research on the topic and tried to post my results but the forum "chose" that time to go pear shaped, the post wouldn't go through, the forums went down, and I went to bed.

 

In a nutshell, even though Psychology was once only considered a Science degree, many universities consider it to be an Arts degree and others have both Arts and Science degrees in Psychology. The Science degree focuses more on Psychology courses while the Arts degree would involve fewer Psychology courses and more liberal arts classes, often including a language.

 

In retrospect, my B.S. would have qualified more as an Arts degree than a Science degree. I was going to go into Electrical Engineeing but couldn't get past Analysis/Calculus so, to salvage two years of college and avoid loosing too many credits and having to take a language (a subject I stink at) if I persued an Arts degree, I changed majors to Psychology (I had an interest in possibly working in the field back then), taking the bare minimal courses required for the degree and minored in Industrial Arts Education, a bit of a sham since I concentrated more on acquiring trade skills, such as cabinet work, welding, machine shop, and some automotive instead of education courses (the education classes I took actually counted for both my major and minor).

 

Jobs were tough to find when I graduated so I worked briefly in a gas station and a couple of cabinet shops before I landed a job with a company where I worked a irrigation delivery order phone bank, as a janitor, in a machine shop, and on a power line construction crew before I landed in warehousing, where I stayed 30 of the 32 years I was at the company before retiring. That job paid far more with far better benefits than I ever could hope to make with an M.S. in Pschology, let alone a B.S.

 

Btw, we all know that B.S. has another meaning. M.S. means more of it and PhD means piled higher and deeper.

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6 hours ago, MandoPanda said:

I agree

There is a funny thing with the interweb, it is hard to distinguish between humor and seriousness.

 

btw I have a a couple university degrees all that helped me land jobs in the petroleum industry.

 

 

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Got a ghetto liberal arts degree. Majored in international studies and poli sci from a top tier school. Graduated top of my class. Worst decision ever. Completely worthless. I pretend to be a genius by throwing around esoteric words and concepts when in fact my arguments clearly lack any significance. I secretly wished I pursued computer engineering or medical science but I don't let my friends know about it because that would bruise my ego. lol. I still make good money, but not six figures good. 

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Undergrad and masters in Biochemical Engineering.  

I do enjoy a lot of liberal arts type things.  I enjoy philosophy, photography and history.  But there is no way I'm paying for a 4 year education in any of those fields.  I know enough people that got degrees in the arts.  Almost none of them ever found a job in the field.  And the ones that did don't get payed well enough to justify the 6 figure debt.

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12 hours ago, GDRRiley said:

right now looking and applying under Aerospace Engineering. 

I actually want to work in a field related to Aerospace with my Computing Science background. Applied to Boeing for Co-op but got an offer from the Government before Boeing even responded to my application so I went that route. 

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17 hours ago, captain_to_fire said:

To be honest I’d rather study differential/integral calculus rather than statistics, which unfortunately is needed for epidemiological studies. :dry:

One of my professors was actually doing research in mathematical biology. Basically entirely differential equation modelling.

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On 10/20/2018 at 2:08 PM, Volbet said:

There are even universities that class mathematics as a liberal art. 

I’d probably dissuade my children (if I bother to have one) to enroll on a university that classifies a bachelor’s degree in mathematics as a part of liberal arts which is not true. 

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21 minutes ago, captain_to_fire said:

I’d probably dissuade my children (if I bother to have one) to enroll on a university that classifies a bachelor’s degree in mathematics as a part of liberal arts which is not true. 

Why?

It would depend a lot on the angle you take on mathematics. If you're just learning about how math work, then I would agree that it isn't to be considered a part of the liberal arts. But if your learning about why math works, then it's absolutely a part of the liberal arts.

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So I'm not even in high school yet, but I would love to get a degree in computer engineering.

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26 minutes ago, Volbet said:

Why?

It would depend a lot on the angle you take on mathematics. If you're just learning about how math work, then I would agree that it isn't to be considered a part of the liberal arts. But if your learning about why math works, then it's absolutely a part of the liberal arts.

Well the university I went to offers "Bachelor of Science in Mathematics major in Actuarial Science". I don't think my calculus professor who is a Physics graduate would be so keen to classify math as part of the liberal arts. As for me, that was the first time I've seen a university offer math under the liberal arts department. 

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I got my BSc and MSc in Astronomy. Currently I'm doing my PhD research project on radio emission from galaxies.

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