Re: Veritas

Mike Schilling wrote:
"Jason Maxwell" <jasonrmax@xxxxxxx> wrote in message

Being my wife and I had a good friend who was taking it who was in the
major, it was called "Physics for Poli Sci majors" to us.

I note smugly that it doesn't work the other way: when I was in college,
there were no watered-down history or literature or philosophy classes for
mathematicians.

<Rant>
Which is why I object to my undergrad degree being a B.S. rather than
B.A.

I took a full liberal arts curiculum. As much foreign language as an
English major and as much English as a history major and as much
history as an economics major and so on and so forth.

The breath requirements for math and physics were as tough as those
for any department in the school. It should be a B.A. (or A.B.).

But I was told that the B.S. was more prestigious and that was why
math/physics gave it. Funny in my parent's time at school the math
degree was an A.B. (for my mother's math degree) or M.A. (for my
father's math degree) because THOSE were the more prestigious degrees.
The removal of any "real" math or science requirement from liberal
arts is why the fancy trade school degree (B.S. and M.S.) came to have
more prestige; at least they showed you knew SOMETHING and were
capable of learning.
<\Rant>

DougL

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