I don't know about the other degrees, but Psychology apparently is a liberal arts degree. Understanding the human psyche has its merit, you know.


And another thing, the OWS isn't even ABOUT unemployed hipsters with liberal arts degrees. It disgusts me how distracted we've gotten from their true purpose.

>>650454
So Psychology is a liberal arts degree? What other degrees fall under liberal arts? And I agree about that part that OWS isn't even about people with liberal arts degrees, that's just a distraction tactic by people who are ungrateful that people are using their constitutional rights to create change.

Another question is letters and sciences is no different than liberal arts?

Well I don't know about you faggots, but with my PolSci degree I'll be going to law school next year.

>>650494
According to wikipedia,

Academic areas that are included within the Liberal arts include:
Great Books
History
Languages including English
Linguistics
Literature
Mathematics
Music
Philosophy
Political Science
Psychology
Religious studies
Science
Theater

Liberal Arts is what you make of it.

I want to work in the foreign service. I'm a History major. I'm taking classes on the history of China and learning Chinese. My degree is specifically geared towards a specific career, though it is relatively flexible.

General workforce, psh.

>>650537
At the university I go to (University of Maryland) Political Science is called Government and Politics. I'm fully aware I can use my degree to get into a better position in any government related job. Or maybe into the lobbying industry, so I can make some REAL change.

I know a lot of shit about government and politics before I started college, and I do have some job experience, but it's a mess.

>>650537

Political Science isn't even in the top 10 highest scoring majors on the LSAT. Ironically, prelaw is one of the lowest scoring fields of study on the LSAT. Can you explain why math, physics, and philosophy majors do better on the LSAT than PoliSci majors?

http://www.uic.edu/cba/cba-depts/economics/undergrad/table.htm

I'm double majoring at History and Philosophy and want to be a scholar.

Would and would. Still, why are all the other chicks so....unappealing? What school is this?

In England modern forreign languages have the highest employment rate within a year of graduating of all degrees excluding medicine. One of my universities boasts a 90% employment/ further education rate within a year of graduating with a bachelor's degree in an mfl

>>650865

That's hilarious, however that study is also 10+ years old.

To be honest, PolSci can be a blow off major, everything is what you make it. The study habits that those other majors develop are the reason that they do better. Just because plenty of worthless retards with a PolSci degree do shitty on the LSAT doesn't mean anything. Look at the people who are in law school and their majors instead of a study that doesn't really prove anything.

>>650999
Britfag French major here. I only learned this after starting my degree. I'm mainly considering studying longer and becoming an academic, if I can find the funding. But it's always nice to know mfl has a ridiculously high employment rate.

The point of a liberal arts degree seems to get a "general education". Since the concept of the Renaissance man is now ludicrously obsolete due to the huge advances in human knowledge that necessitate specialisation, I think that liberal arts fail to provide a general knowledge, since they will necessarily have to cover the subjects very shallowly. Jacks of all trades, masters of none.