Which Liberal Arts degree do you feel is the hardest at LSU?

Women's and Gender studies because obviously, "I just cant even"

Whichever one keeps you from smoking a whole trash bag full of weed every day because it is too hard

I took Art Appreciation as an elective and that was the hardest class ever....to say awake in.

The professor would turn off the lights, play soft music, and then show slides of paintings. I mean, c'mon!

I majored in history and have minors in African American studies and sociology.

LSU was a cakewalk. Never went to class.
Never studied. Spent five football seasons there. Stayed stoned.

Good times man

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You just don't get that type of in-class entertainment in business or engineering because the people taking those are often adjusted to the real world for the most part and intelligent enough to know what will get them somewhere in life.

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In my dynamics class a few years ago, there was a fist fight. Can't remember why, but it was definitely entertaining. And all involved are engineers now, so I guess it worked out.

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Everybody hates on Liberal Arts classes, but some of those were the most fun I've had in college. The degrees and classes are largely useless, but the people who take those classes compared to engineering and business are so batshit crazy, they can't help but entertain the crap out of you as you sit in the back and enjoy the show. You just don't get that type of in-class entertainment in business or engineering because the people taking those are often adjusted to the real world for the most part and intelligent enough to know what will get them somewhere in life.

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Sort of, until you realize that like 30% of people from major public schools are BA grads and the huge majority of them aren't women's studies BLM activists or anything.

Liberal arts degress get a lot of hate but they are necessary and even helpful.

You don't go to college to get a job. You go to college to become educated.

Do people really want to live in a world where universities stop offering courses in art, history, philosophy, and literature? I sure don't.

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I of course think STEM courses are objective more difficult, but nonetheless, it's a different skillset that engineering students don't always possess.

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Good answer.

I am a liberal arts person. Undergrad in secondary education - language arts. Currently getting a master's in rhet/comp and may go for a PhD.

I however have always been a more math minded person. I find math and science courses to be easier than my rhet/comp courses. There are objective answers that I can learn and regurgitate. There are formulas to follow. Steps to take. Previous examples of success from former scientists and mathematicians who can help you find your own success.

Granted, I have never had any graduate level science or math courses, so I don't know how hard those are. But undergrad courses (including organic chemistry) were pretty easy for me.

Now having to write out an analysis in the field of rhetoric? Reading something like Janet Atwill's Rhetoric Reclaimed?

That hurts my head.

(Don't ask why I'm not in science. I don't really know myself.)

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Yeah, and the huge majority of those people don't go sit in some room and write papers on literature. They end up selling medical supplies or going to law school or starting a small business. You know, arguably stuff that is productive (our profession aside).

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And there's nothing wrong with that, imo.

I've said this before, but if you walk into a company and talk to anyone, chances are they didn't study business or finance in college. Lots of them studied art, history, biology, whatever.

Unless the job requires a particular license or skill, most businesses just want intelligent people.