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Whats a liberal arts degree and what kind of people take it?
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Is that a degree in university or in college (I honestly don't know which is which, is it like college first and then university and if so why?)

Also is that some sort of a degree designed for people who can't take real degrees but still want to be in college/uni?

Enlighten me and discuss.


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Re: Whats a liberal arts degree and what kind of people take it? [Re: mellowparty]
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It's a degree for people that don't know what they want to do with their lives, but are in college anyway. It's pretty useless in the long run. :shrug:


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Re: Whats a liberal arts degree and what kind of people take it? [Re: Dark_Star]
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Ok so what is it useful for? I mean it can't be complete bollocks can it?


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Re: Whats a liberal arts degree and what kind of people take it? [Re: mellowparty]
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You can still major in hard sciences, you just have to take a bunch of random soft science classes in your first couple years.

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Re: Whats a liberal arts degree and what kind of people take it? [Re: Dorian Gray]
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So whats the general consensus: is it gay or not?


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Re: Whats a liberal arts degree and what kind of people take it? [Re: mellowparty]
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Beyond gay, and generally worthless in real life.


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Re: Whats a liberal arts degree and what kind of people take it? [Re: luvdemshrooms]
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So if its gay and worthless why do people take it? Are they stupid or something? I'd imagine a lot of drug users enrol :lol:


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Re: Whats a liberal arts degree and what kind of people take it? [Re: mellowparty]
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its a degree that is about as useful as toilet paper. interesting though and you get to live the student life for 3-4 years throughout the process


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Re: Whats a liberal arts degree and what kind of people take it? [Re: mellowparty]
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It's generally considered a broad-based, non-specific degree that includes multiple subjects.  People take them when they don't have a specific career or major in mind.  Others take them with the thought that having a college education makes you a well-rounded person.

They have gotten a bad reputation as bullshit degrees.  Unfortunately, there aren't a whole lot of college degerees/majors nowadays that will launch you into a high-paying career.  A good example are those in traditional, biological or "hard" sciences.  A four year degree in science qualifies you to be a lab tech.  Often referred to as a "pipette jockey."  It's essentially minimally-skilled scientific labor that a liberal arts major could also be trained to do.


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Re: Whats a liberal arts degree and what kind of people take it? [Re: badchad]
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badchad said:
It's generally considered a broad-based, non-specific degree that includes multiple subjects.  People take them when they don't have a specific career or major in mind.  Others take them with the thought that having a college education makes you a well-rounded person.

They have gotten a bad reputation as bullshit degrees.  Unfortunately, there aren't a whole lot of college degerees/majors nowadays that will launch you into a high-paying career.  A good example are those in traditional, biological or "hard" sciences.  A four year degree in science qualifies you to be a lab tech.  Often referred to as a "pipette jockey."  It's essentially minimally-skilled scientific labor that a liberal arts major could also be trained to do.


Pretty much what he said. I worked my through college in an engineering firm, got a general business degree....

Honestly, unless you're going to be an engineer or something very specialized, most companies care much more about your experience than what degree is printed on your diploma

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Re: Whats a liberal arts degree and what kind of people take it? [Re: kiss_the_sky03]
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I'm studying for my Liberal Arts associate's at a two year college, and I'm taking every English class I can get my hands on. I want to eventually teach ESL after I get my BA in English and MA in ESOL. It's basically a stepping stone for me so I can get into a four year college. That being said, I'm not planning on trying to find a career with it...pretty much impossible. My career is "student" for now, haha.


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Re: Whats a liberal arts degree and what kind of people take it? [Re: badchad] * 1
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badchad said:
They have gotten a bad reputation as bullshit degrees.  Unfortunately, there aren't a whole lot of college degerees/majors nowadays that will launch you into a high-paying career.  A good example are those in traditional, biological or "hard" sciences.  A four year degree in science qualifies you to be a lab tech.  Often referred to as a "pipette jockey."  It's essentially minimally-skilled scientific labor that a liberal arts major could also be trained to do.


Yeah a very poor lab tech if you ask me. If you want a good lab tech you want someone who understands the science behind what he is doing instead of someone who mechanically repeats a western blot protocol or whatever.


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Re: Whats a liberal arts degree and what kind of people take it? [Re: mellowparty]
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liberal arts are classically understood as "skills suitable for a free man". traditionally this can be understood as the trivium - grammar, rhetoric and logic - and the quadrivium - arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music. both the trivium and the quadrivium in combination were utilized as precursors for philosophical and theological training during the age of scholasticism and into the renaissance.

liberal arts is now an umbrella term that encompasses philosophy, art, literature, history and law. the curriculum is generally derided now because it doesn't help corporations maximize profits, but they are hardly useless. liberal arts training helps people think and communicate more effectively and gives them a vastly deeper understanding of the culture in which they are embedded, thus freeing them as individuals.

among the two highest paid liberal arts careers are history professor and lawyer.

my personal take on liberal arts is that unless you have the calling as an artist or to go into teaching or law, i think it's best to mix liberal arts in with a degree that will give you a skill set that will help you thrive in the corporate world. my current plan is to pursue either a masters in human resources or a four year bs for technical writing and then slowly pursue a phd in western philosophy so i can teach when i'm older and financially stable.


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Re: Whats a liberal arts degree and what kind of people take it? [Re: mellowparty]
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Pretty much every BA is the same...it doesn't really matter what your major was.  Very few people actually work in a field related to their major.


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Re: Whats a liberal arts degree and what kind of people take it? [Re: mellowparty]
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Wiki: Liberal Arts

"It can refer to certain areas of literature, languages, philosophy, history, mathematics, psychology, and science."

A B.A. in 'Liberal Arts' might be lame, however a B.A. in a liberal art, such as mathematics, psychology, language, etc., can be useful.

Put the fucking dogma to rest already.


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