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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think some of you are confused as to what a liberal arts education is. Maybe you think it means majoring in a humanities or social sciences discipline? It doesn't.

A liberal arts education means that you take core classes in a wide range of subjects, from humanities to social sciences to hard sciences. Your ultimate major can be anything from poetry to physics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_education

A liberal arts degree is typically contrasted with a technical or vocational degree. [/quote]

I'm sorry but in the common vernacular, a liberal arts degree pretty much always mean a humanities-focused degree.  And that is the meaning of the original post.  I took courses across many disciplines including taking as many humanities and social sciences as I could fit in with my STEM major, but I would never say I have a liberal arts degree.  People would get an incorrect understanding if I did.[/quote]

Not my common vernacular. You have a liberal arts EDUCATION, which means your education is broad in nature. But you were a STEM major and now a whatever.

And to make it more co fusing you can be a science or computer science major from a liberal arts college.

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