<p>I was thinking of pursuing a liberal arts degree, but I wanted to choose a minor that will closely resemble my job once I graduate with my degree. So I came up with a list of mnors and was wondering which one I should choose:</p>
<ol>
<li>Unemployment</li>
<li>Panhandling</li>
<li>Fast food preparation</li>
<li>Starbucks beverage preparer</li>
<li>Toilet cleaning</li>
</ol>
<p>Any others I should consider? Thanks!</p>
<p>Yes, lets forget the liberal arts and all join hand to march in lock-step to the sound of the corporate minuet. Can’t you just imagine a wonderful world filled with engineers and market analysts… I hear IB is making a strong comeback! Can’t wait! Who needs art and literature? We all want 20-second sound bytes and tweets to give us our information. No more need for critical thought - Hooray! Let’s just turn all of our outdated universities into really pumped up technical training schools… just like DeVry or ITT Tech! Our educational models could be driven by market necessity. What a glorious world it would be… a system of learning where employment opportunities would dictate our degree decisions. Forget being passionate or inquisitive… look to make cold, hard cash… It’s what drives the world isn’t it? It’s all the really matters, right? It’ll make us all happy won’t it?</p>
<p>■■■■■ in… ■■■■■ out</p>
<p>“a system of learning where employment opportunities would dictate our degree decisions.”</p>
<p>Can I have fries with that?</p>
<p>^^ says the ■■■■■ who seeks to compensate by acquiring more toys than the next guy… because, as we all know, money is the most important thing in the world.</p>
<p>This thread is awesome. I totally read it as serious at first. Good one.:)</p>
<p>I disagree, there are plenty of good liberal arts degrees</p>
<p>they include:
Managerial Economics
Quantitative Economics
Business Finance
Physics
Chemistry
Computer Science
Environmental Sciences
Applied Mathematics
Statistics</p>
<p>and similar.</p>
<p>^ With the possible exception of the first three, none of those majors fall into the category of liberal arts.</p>
<p>In fact, even the first three really aren’t liberal arts - at least not at my school.</p>
<p>I mean, Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry and Math?</p>
<p>there are places that offer those as BAs.</p>
<p>also the first three are also offered as BSes at some places.</p>
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<p>Yes, they do.</p>
<p>The liberal arts are “studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)”</p>
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<p>All the majors xelink listed fit the definition. In fact, math, physics, and chemistry have been at the very core of liberal arts for quite some time. Computer science is the new kid on the block, but a liberal art nonetheless.</p>
<p>I think you’re under the impression that liberal arts majors can’t be quantitative. That’s false. Math itself is a liberal art.</p>
<p>But schools generally offer those degrees as a BS, not as a liberal art.</p>
<p>Re: Post #7: “With the possible exception of the first three, none of those majors fall into the category of liberal arts.”</p>
<p>Re: Post #10: “But schools generally offer those degrees as a BS, not as a liberal art.”</p>
<p>The 7 liberal arts of the Middle Ages includes grammar, rhetoric, dialectic (logic), mathematics, astronomy, and music. A BA in this curriculum was considered preparatory to the higher faculties of law, medicine, and theology.</p>
<p>Most academic disciplines evolved from the liberal arts (otherwise known as the liberal arts & sciences). Apparently, some posters are presuming to comment on the liberal arts, but don’t know what they are.</p>