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Originally Posted by blankall
Sorry, I should clarify. I was referring to "Liberal Arts" programs in universities, which includes: humanities, social sciences, history, philosophy, non-applied sciences, etc...
At most universities, most undergrads (exceptions like Engineering) are either Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts programs. When we refer to the "arts" degrees, we are referring to Bachelor of Arts degrees. You're talking more about applied arts or fine arts. Most of the careers you're referring to would require education in technical schools, which would have more in common with a trade than a Bachelor of Arts program at a University.
Even then, I don't think liberal arts programs are useless, we just have way too many students enrolled in them and the standards for passing them are way too low. The government needs to step in and say, we only need X amount of people with a sociology degree, so only X amounts of spots will be available. Instead, they allow unlimited amounts of students, it becomes like a 2nd highschool. The students leave totally unsatisfied with their job prospects, and our economy has to import labour with actual skills.
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Not sure if this is just a difference in education between Canada and the states, but that distinction is an incorrect one from all I know. B.S. accreditation involves programs with fewer general ed courses and more focus towards the area of study. B.A. degrees might have less classwork requirements in the specialty but more general education requirements. Here is a random link I found that
describes it.
And this is not necessarily a new thing. I went to a small liberal arts school and graduated in December of 2004. I received a B.A. in mathematics. I took my fair share of math courses but we also had required classes each year on bigger picture topics. I recall the course I took my senior year was on cosmology and creation.