<p>I personally wouldn't do so myself since I'm not too interested in engineering, I just ask this question out of curiousity. </p>
<p>To my knowledge, I've only known one person (or rather, robot) to successfully pull this off. 05.05.2003</a> - Innovative engineering and business graduate Ankur Luthra named University Medalist</p>
<p>Business = Humanity major?</p>
<p>I met a girl who was minoring in Art History/Anrtho (don’t remeber which one). </p>
<p>My research prof, was an undergrad w/ double major in Engr’ing and Art History. She later got her Ph.D at Stanford.</p>
<p>A girl I met was double in Engr’ing and Japanese Language–but she’s staying 5 years. She also is probably gonna be doing the max units or going over for most of her time here, b/c Engr’ing has so many more requirements than other majors.</p>
<p>LAMO @ what yg7s7. Sarcasm (Bill Gates).</p>
<p>I count humanities as anything beside the technical disciplines (science, engineering, and math). Of course, you can count engineering a humanities major if you WANT to.</p>
<p>Lets count everything thing as a humanities major. lol</p>
<p>but to answer the question, yep alot of people do it. I know alot of people who are doing something like this like BME/Psychology or Mech E/French. Hell there’s even a Mat E/Philosophy/Evolutionary Biology triple major that I know. so it does happen. its not uncommon</p>
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<p>Then you don’t have a grasp of what the humanities are…</p>
<p>From [Merriam-Webster](<a href=“http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/humanities]Merriam-Webster[/url]:”>Humanities Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster):</a>
3 plural : the branches of learning (as philosophy, arts, or languages) that investigate human constructs and concerns as opposed to natural processes (as in physics or chemistry) and social relations (as in anthropology or economics)</p>
<p>If anything, business is more of a social science. Of course, I tend to think business is a technical major on its own, crossing social sciences with a light dose of actual science with the goal of running a successful business.</p>
<p>North Carolina State has the Benjamin Franklin Scholars Program where you earn both a BS in Engineering and a BA in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.</p>
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Well, exactly, if you just twist it a bit:
“3 plural : the branches of learning (as philosophy, arts, or languages) that investigate human constructs and concerns as opposed to natural processes (as in physics or chemistry) and social relations (as in anthropology or economics)”</p>
<p>You do these in business. But people only concern about making money in business, i mean literally how much. I think about a lot of stuff if I can make money like Bill Gates. These days you can’t just make money, you have to know the social science and psychology of business.</p>
<p>What do you do in business? I seem to have missed your point here. Business is much more closely related to social sciences than humanities.</p>
<p>^ Your definition said “branches of learning that investigate human constructs and concerns”. I just said I can see business as a philosophy course, as an art course, as a language course. </p>
<p>Look. It’s a philosophy because you struggle among other competitors. You look at how the customers and potential customers reacts. Business administration is another philosophy and psychology course.</p>
<p>It’s an art because when you succeed you look at everything that you do as an art. It’s beautiful.</p>
<p>You can look at business as a language because there are “rules” for how you talk, how you present to others in a business field. You can’t expose your minds to your competitors, for example. Here, another philosophy and psychology course. This is more than just technical communication.</p>
<p>If we have to be strict with definition, yes, philosophy, art, language are humanities and business isn’t. But I am just saying that literally people these days don’t have a grasp about the beauty of learning. </p>
<p>In particular, psychology falls into both social science and humanities.</p>
<p>Using that argument you could argue engineering is a humanity though. You could argue that ANYTHING is a humanity.</p>
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What on earth does any of that have to do with philosophy? Why do you consistently couple philosophy with psychology? I suppose you could argue that philosophy in some way affects everything, but not in the way you are describing it.</p>
<p>Oh the humanity!!1!</p>
<p>I’m a mechanical engineering & history double major at the moment, though the history major is looking like it wont happen. But it can be done, it just may take longer than 4 years (which I’m not willing to do). And business is NOT a humanity. Neither is engineering.</p>
<p>Technically history isn’t a humanities course either. ;-)</p>
<p>At Clemson, you can minor in international engineering. You take 4 semesters of a foreign language and spend 3 months studying/interning in a foreign country to get this minor.</p>
<p>Oh that is soooo true boneh3ad, as my advisor has reminded me many, MANY times. However, I consider it to be closer to a humanities subject than engineering. But yeah, I’m just trying to say that there are engineering majors double majoring in engineering and a field of the liberal arts. It can be done, though engineering majors with the mindset to do it are an unusual breed IMHO :)</p>
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Don’t limit yourself with what the dictionary said lol Beyond what the ancient greek philosophy and Thomas Pane’s Common Sense, there are a lot more that we talk about philosophy. </p>
<p>Be creative. I mean yes, all my professors think I am a weird student because all I doing what Hamilton is doing. LOL
This is called “YOU THINK TOO MUCH”.</p>
<p>No. It is philosophy. For example, as simple as philosophy of business. There is this game theory which is extensively used in all disciplines (engineering, science, social science, psychology, philosophy).</p>
<p>Do you see how the people on Wall Street is playing a psychology game with the world?
Those giants on WS are definitely well-trained players.</p>
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We don’t need to be creative with the definitions of things; language would have no meaning if it was not well-defined and repetitive.</p>
<p>Are you trying to say that because game theory can be used in philosophy, it therefore IS philosophy, and that therefore if you use game theory in anything else, you are using philosophy? Because that is clearly incorrect. Again, I am not disputing that there is a certain philosophy behind most subjects, I am disputing the way in which you seem to be using the term “philosophy.” Philosophy and psychology are certainly not equivalent either.</p>
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Equivalent. I never said they were equivalent. I said “and”. A conjunction.</p>
<p>Certainly part of the construct and behavior of human psychology is philosophy. Philosophy is as simple as questions and answers, which is usually done through observation, meditation, and experience. Philosophy is just part of what psychology is about. The rest of the general psychology is more technical - medical related.</p>
<p>I am sure you agree on that.</p>
<p>LOL I don’t want to hjhack this thread, and sorry if I did. I can tell you a personal story that would solve the “dispute”, Sithis. But that’s okay.</p>
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