<p>Something to put in mind: Just because a lot of your bosses/parents/uncles have Humanities degrees and good jobs doesn’t mean you can trust that you might easily do so too. Remember that they went to college at a time when it cost less, was easier to get in, and a degree was more rare. It’s much different now!</p>
<p>That said, a lot of my friends with Liberal Arts majors are doing well. My friend who is majoring in Communications has gotten internships ever semester, another one studying Art History is getting into auction houses, etc. Doesn’t matter what your major is, just work hard and be open to opportunities, and don’t give up. It’s not much different than STEM majors-- we compete for STEM jobs or Med school, you guys compete for many other kinds of jobs, they’re just not as specific, giving you more flexibility. </p>
<p>Just my 2cents
as a Hispanic person who is a south campus (STEM) major it saddens me that there are so few under-represented minorities (AA, Latino, API, Native Americans) in our side of campus. There are few under-represented minorities @UCLA to begin with, and they are mostly in North Campus (Humanities+Social Science). So I would encourage anyone to become a STEM major, I know the classes are harder but there are more job prospects for South Campus majors.</p>
<p>ps. Social Sciences? I dont like the name of that category, to me the word Science implies STEM (Physics, astronomy, chemistry, ect) it should be called Social Studies.</p>
<p>pps. As you can tell by the tone, there are friendly rivalries at UCLA between North and South campus… I think taking subjects in both is the best way to be a well rounded person.</p>
<p>I’ve seen you on here for awhile now and you’ve brought this up multiple times. This STEM South vs North campus thing is getting old. And please provide some definitions of “science” and do explain how these majors don’t fit the criteria. </p>
<p>@Dagoberto
That’s dumb to major in STEM or anything else just because the field needs more minorities. I’m AA and have little interest in STEM coursework, though I have proven to be good at it. Why would I major in something I’m not interested in? If making money is your goal then there’s money to be made in most fields. I make pretty good money, without a college degree, so once I get my Social SCIENCE degree, I’ll be unstoppable. If you think you’re guaranteed to make money being a STEM major… well good luck with that. </p>
<p>Unlike you, I have a respect for all majors. It takes every major that is offered to make our world work. Our world wouldn’t work without mathematicians, archaeologists, psychologists, historians, chemists, philosophers, etc. </p>
<p>I am also Hispanic, but I don’t think we should force or persuade minorities into anything. Put it simply, STEM is open to all races and genders, so we have equal opportunity. No race is gonna be denied entrance in a STEM major. That’s good. What we don’t “need” is equal representation (all races equally distributed). Like it or not, a lot of Hispanics are just not interested in STEM. Actually, I’d say most people in general aren’t into STEM. Nothing we can or should do about it.</p>
<p>No one cares that social sciences don’t conform to your elitist definition of what a “science” is. If universities all over the world are calling it social sciences and not social studies, who are you to argue the semantics over this? </p>
<p>What does a B.A. vs B.S. have to do with your notion that social sciences should be called social studies? Lol, and that link takes me to the majors. I clicked on Anthropology B.A. and UCLA calls it a “social science.” Don’t be a dunce. Control yourself. I know the urge to announce your classes are harder and your job prospects are “better” is practically unbearable but please do try your best to constrain yourself. </p>
<p>Social sciences are, by their definition, sciences for the same reason that the natural sciences are considered sciences. They both use the scientific method, both engage in observation and repeated experimentation to acquire knowledge about some aspect of the world, whether it’s the human world or the natural one.</p>
<p>It’s sad that some STEM majors are so snobby as to believe that social sciences don’t count as “sciences.” If I had to make an educated guess as to why some STEM majors, such as @Dagoberto, believe the social sciences aren’t real sciences, it’s because they perceive them to be easier than the natural sciences. Regardless of whether this is true, it doesn’t prove their point that academic disciplines, such as anthropology, psychology, and sociology, aren’t sciences.</p>
<p>I challenge anyone here who disagrees to prove me wrong.</p>
<p>I think we’re all being stupid because we’re trying to present reasonable rational arguments to a person who is obviously neither reasonable or rational. As the exalted STEM major, he above all if us Pseudo science peons, should be the most rational and reasonable. But what do I know, I’m just a Sociologist in the making.</p>
<p>@Cayton I will admit that maybe I am a little snobby about being South Campus major, however how is it different from the snobbery that says that UCLA > rest of the UC’s? However in terms of STEM, I stick to my definition of science. If following the Scientific method is enough then all majors follow then lets call everything science since plently of Humanities majors also follow the scientific method.</p>
<p>@onehanded are u telling me there is a I love STEM subreddit for Berkeley?? you are right there should be one for UCLA (lol)</p>
<p>@everyone The comments I make are playful banter. I dont mean to insult anyone, I am taking Humanities classes this quarter and I enjoyed tremendously and I would not say they are easy. I am using a part of the brain I rarely use (which is a good thing). I am merely giving the opinion of the other side of the coin (isn’t that the definition of diversity?)</p>
<p>I feel like you took some north campus classes and had a major existential crisis lmao. Don’t worry, I had the same feeling after taking calc, like “this is not what I want to do with my life”</p>
<p>Still as far as I can tell, you’re not the most well rounded person are you?</p>
<p>@Dagoberto regarding your response to matachines, something something reading comprehension</p>
<p>lol @ all the butthurt in this thread. If you take pride in your field and find meaning in it why would you need to defend it from some random guy online?</p>
<p>You’re trying to justify your snobbery by saying that other people do it in other contexts, such as when some claim that UCLA is a better school than most other UCs. To be honest, it’s not snobby to say something like that, especially when you acknowledge that there are other UCs that are better than UCLA, such as UC Berkeley, and other schools that are better than Berkeley, such as Stanford. It’s merely the expression of an opinion.</p>
<p><em>Even if</em> it were snobby to state that some schools are better than others, it doesn’t mean it’s OK to say that the natural sciences are better, or have more “worth” than the social sciences because they’re the “true sciences” when that’s simply not true.</p>
<p>And no, claiming that if we consider disciplines such as anthropology and sociology as social sciences, we must consider all disciplines as sciences in one way or another, is not true and you know it.</p>
<p>How is English a science if we consider the social sciences to be real sciences like physics and biology? How is philosophy a science if we accept that the social sciences are real sciences like physics and biology?</p>
<p>How is engineering a science(It’s not, by the way. It just applies scientific/mathematic principles) if we consider the social sciences to be real sciences like physics and biology?</p>
<p>Your argument is kind of flimsy and you know it. The social sciences are every bit as scientific as the natural sciences are, whether you choose to acknowledge that fact or not. You can cling to your own definitions of what actual science is if you wish, but as Daniel Moynihan once said, “You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.”</p>