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Originally Posted by blankall
Econ is definitely not a hard science degree. As someone with a biology degree, I'm equally irked about the watering down of the BSc.
I don't think there's anything lesser with an arts degree, but it is a different style of training and education. A lot of people associate all arts degrees with the plethora of students graduating with psych/sociology/antro/etc.... Degrees. These degrees can be valuable too, but are generally much easier to again and where students who fail out of other degrees end up. They have a bit of a bad stigma, which I think could be corrected if universities began limiting enrollment in these subjects. Once again I'd like to see more centralized control from the government here. Particularly if the government is going to continue subsidizing these courses so heavily.
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Interesting take. What makes the "hard" sciences more difficult form the "soft" sciences? I can understand the ones with math involvement, like organic chem, but biology? What makes it so difficult? What makes psych, sociology, and anthropology so easy? I mean, the real work in any of the sciences doesn't take place at the undergrad level, so what makes you believe your bio degree is better than a anthropology degree? You're both qualified to understand animal husbandry, just in different terms.
