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by pdonis 2468 days ago
> The idea of a liberal arts degree at a university is to create a well-rounded individual.

That was the original idea, yes. That does not mean that actual liberal arts degrees today at actual universities actually come anywhere close to doing that. For one thing, under that original idea, science was one of the liberal arts, and anyone who expected to be considered well rounded had to study it. How many liberal arts programs include any kind of serious exposure to science?

> see the other post about Sociology being useless

To the degree that it claims to be a science, I would argue that it probably is. It has basically no predictive power.