Isaias Badgley: The liberal arts include all the non-professional majors (professional majors include nursing, accounting, engineering, etc). The liberal arts include English, history, art, music, languages, humanities, social sciences, sciences, and math.
Jeannetta Gaffigan: My views tend to be more conservative and I do believe AGW is something to be concerned with in the future and action should be taken now. I think the whole political and spiritual part of this discussion is really interesting. It's like the roles are reversed and conservatives are the atheists, skeptics and the liberals are the fundamentalist. Even though I feel the philosophy and bias of scientists and AGW alarmist influences the projections of the dangers, I still don't think the science should be ignored. Some people who are deniers have a hard time siding with people who are political enemies in other areas. I think this would also be true if the situation were reversed. Its unfortunate t! hat people can't put aside these differences but it's really human nature. Reactions to AGW take a long time to evolve I believe, not because people are ignorant or deny science but because change of behavior is so difficult. It's just easier to be a skeptic sometimes, just ask an atheist....Show more
Dwight Siniard: Eri is correct.Liberal Arts are everything (including math and science) that isn't applied professional/vocational. Fine and Performing Arts can go either way - studying music history is a liberal art, studying music education is applied professional. Learning to make costumes for movies (theater) is applied professional, examining the history of acting (theater) is a liberal art.Almost all bachelor's degrees awarded in the US are "a liberal arts degree" because we require that everyone take a certain amount of "general education" courses to make graduates well rounded. Even engineers and accountants have to take literature, history, government, etc...! as part of their degree. That's the distinction of what make! s a degree "a liberal arts degree".You'll find that while a degree in the liberal arts subjects creates a well educated and thoughtful citizen - those majors don't usually lead to a vocational qualification at the bachelor's degree level. In other words, a bachelor's degree in literature/history/biology isn't going to be as helpful finding a job as will a bachelor's degree in accounting or teaching because we expect our "educated" type folks (students of the liberal arts) to have a graduate degree as proof of their education in order to get jobs in those fields. Now we're seeing our professional technicians (nurses, accountants, teachers, etc...) getting master's degrees too.The days of "get a degree in anything = get a good job" ending when everyone that graduates from high school started going to college. Now you need that degree to just be competitive with everyone else. You need a degree in a specialized professional/vocational field (or an advanced degree) to out c! ompete them....Show more
Maye Delk: in liberal arts you get to major in a particular descipline ......for example i am taking liberal arts mathematics and science in college and its my sophmore year in college.....i have to take 2 sequences of science/mathematic courses.....i took general biology 1 first semester and then took general biology 2 second semester so my one sequence of science is complete ....now i am gonna take chemistry 1 and 2 and this would be my second sequence.....if you wanna take only one science sequence then thts fine too buh then you have to take mathematics sequence to satisfy the curriclum requirement........most of the course are electives that is you can choose whatever course you want to depending on your future major.....i took all science and mathematics electives because i wanna go into premedical........hope it helps you a bit...Show more
Joie Libutti: When I think of Liberal Arts I think of L.A, or Language Arts. According to th! e Internet, it does mean the study of Literature, but it is also the st! udy of Science. If this is your strong point and you seem to think it's right for you, go for it and reach for the start. =) Good luck!
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