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Originally Posted by llama64
I don't mean this as a jab at you personally, but it's hard to take anyone seriously when they use the phrase "liberal arts".
It's a Bachelor of "ARTS". There is no liberal in there.
It's almost as bad as referring to the Arts programs as "Social Sciences", or the "soft Sciences". History is not exact enough to be a science, and sociology is pretty much hit and miss despite a dogged determination to apply methodological models to human behavior. Either it's science or it's not. Wish they'd figure that out already.
But yeah, as I stated above. Avoid UofC if you want a decent Arts program.
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Huh? I think the phrase 'liberal arts' is appropriate nomenclature for what you're calling just "arts". True, the degree doesn't have the word "liberal" in it, but it's demonstrative of the historical formulation of curricula formerly (and currently, elsewhere) called the liberal arts - literature, painting, philosophy, history, languages, etc. The degree is rooted in the tradition of the liberal arts. No?
Also not sure what your point about the "Social Sciences" is. It's still science even if the data isn't easily quantifiable or purporting to be objective. You can disagree with the quality of their scholarship, but I think the designation of "science" - with a prefix of "social", "soft", etc - is still correct.