Re: Frazz, Thursday, 21 Feb.

On Feb 25, 5:15 pm, Heather Fieldhouse <bunnyhug...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
In article <47c35c83$0$30716$4c368...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mark Jackson <mjack...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ha! I have a Bachelor of Arts in Science.

Caltech offers Bachelor of Science degrees in English and History (or
did, back in the 1960s).

You can get a BS or BA in philosophy at my current institution. BS is
generally not recommended by the department, though. The only
difference is that the BS doesn't have a foreign language requirement.
It's called BS to indicate a narrowly focused program of study.

At my undergraduate school, everyone got a BA. My friend got a BA in
physics. The "arts" referred to the educational philosophy, meaning
liberal arts, as it is a liberal arts college. The traditional "liberal
arts" include mathematics and science.


Sounds like where I got my BA (in biology.) We were to understand that
BS is narrow and limited and the school didn't do narrow and limited;
since my college graduates an extraordinarily high percentage who go
on to get doctorates, I don't suppose BAs in the various hard sciences
have been a problem.


V.
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Veronique Chez Sheep
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