Post AkYT5bF1TOJ5kHaA7s by mmezabet@craftgoblin.club
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(DIR) Post #AkYQtCokFqscc4FmBE by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-02T11:00:47Z
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If you went to college what best describes your focus of study?
(DIR) Post #AkYR8EuekLO1SIBemu by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-02T11:03:18Z
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@skye Which country is that?
(DIR) Post #AkYRTZo0GNAUKmFWb2 by Nickiquote@mstdn.social
2024-08-02T11:07:20Z
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@futurebird I did History then Law so I picked the second option.
(DIR) Post #AkYRery94VCzqwNVaa by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-02T11:09:26Z
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@skye In the US a school that grants four-year degrees is called a college. If that school also grants PhDs, the degree needed to be a teacher at a University or College then it's called a University. So all universities are colleges. But not all colleges are universities. There is a process called "accreditation" that these institutions must pass to use these words to describe themselves and it's pretty good. (Although that BYU meets it makes me side-eye a little)
(DIR) Post #AkYRhoLqyiJXVAs0oK by mmezabet@craftgoblin.club
2024-08-02T11:09:44Z
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@futurebird I am no sure where languages (fluency/history/culture; not linguistics) fall in this -- I guess under Social Science? But the thought of being in the same category as an MBA was surprisingly distasteful. 😬
(DIR) Post #AkYRjc8bMMGKCVX0hk by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-02T11:10:11Z
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@skye So, because there are universities in Germany those are also what we would called college. And if a student went to university they would be called a "college student"
(DIR) Post #AkYRsIVZi8JDvYPxCq by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-02T11:11:14Z
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@mmezabet I just put MBA in there explicitly since they have tried to be STEM and I will not allow that. However, well maybe we should have more poll options.
(DIR) Post #AkYSEGdpKgBcVYkmA4 by mmezabet@craftgoblin.club
2024-08-02T11:15:47Z
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@futurebird They should not be STEM, you are correct there! Maybe have a Liberal Arts as well as a Fine Arts option?
(DIR) Post #AkYSG97cGEwLlXaChM by wmd@chaos.social
2024-08-02T11:16:03Z
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@futurebird @skye Oooh, this helps a lot. Here(NL) we have kinda 3 levels (It's more complicated) of college here, one tier is subdivided more, where some divisions are less than 4 years.
(DIR) Post #AkYSW6Af041PFNc6Fc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-02T11:18:45Z
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@mmezabet Technically math and science are part of a liberal arts education... "Liberal Arts" is more of a term that describes a general philosophy of education where all students are exposed to both "hard sciences" AND "social sciences" ? IDK I thought it'd be confusing.
(DIR) Post #AkYSiR3hAM03VJEq6S by theory@xoxo.zone
2024-08-02T11:21:11Z
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@futurebird First time I’ve ever seen social science and business in the same category
(DIR) Post #AkYSk2XvH20G3j8sSm by mensrea@freeradical.zone
2024-08-02T11:21:21Z
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@futurebird i said fine arts cause it's closest but it's still not very close. was a 3 year diploma, graphic design, at a technikon (aka polytech internationally). the institution classification no longer exists though
(DIR) Post #AkYT5bF1TOJ5kHaA7s by mmezabet@craftgoblin.club
2024-08-02T11:25:25Z
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@futurebird I was thinking Liberal Arts = Arts & Sciences, so you would have Social Sciences and STEM as your sciences and Fine Arts and Liberal Arts (history, languages, philosophy, that kind of thing) as your arts, but yeah, "liberal arts" is more of an umbrella term than I thought it was.At my uni we have a college of arts & sciences; we also have a college of medicine, of nursing, of dentistry, and of business. Those are all "professional" things outside arts & sciences/liberal arts.
(DIR) Post #AkYTMdCNRteCjsSxc0 by chrisfarnham@mastodon.roundpond.net
2024-08-02T11:28:30Z
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@futurebird Liberal Arts, BA
(DIR) Post #AkYWSXp4eIBVfM4rmi by caseyjonesed@awscommunity.social
2024-08-02T12:03:07Z
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@futurebird deep dive into marijuana.
(DIR) Post #AkYWW1z8xiaC58RxT6 by indigoparadox@mastodon.social
2024-08-02T12:03:18Z
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@futurebird I mean you say "best" but I got a BA in Info Sci and that's closer to "no college" than any of the others. 😌 Maybe BFA in Fine Arts? lol
(DIR) Post #AkYWh8a8mAyTj73Dea by sbourne@mastodon.social
2024-08-02T12:05:38Z
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@futurebird I was a philosophy major, in large part so I could take lots of courses: math, science, languages, history, literature. I found the social sciences a little bogus, so didn't do a lot in that area. So maybe STEAM?
(DIR) Post #AkYWqByJXeeCqXfwie by Tracey_Writes@c.im
2024-08-02T12:07:22Z
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@futurebird I answered fine arts because I think that's the closest. I'd spend most of my time taking literature classes, learning languages, linguistics, etc.
(DIR) Post #AkYX4SgADmyqiWzRnU by FeralRobots@mastodon.social
2024-08-02T11:50:06Z
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@ics @skye @futurebird I personally like the colloquial 'college' usage.I'm not sure if you're speaking of a Euro or US context in your first para - that's _historically_ true in the US, though since about mid-20th-C most "colleges" have been general study.'University' is getting picked up more widely as branding because of the perceived prestige. E.g. the Pennsylvania system (PASHE) is rife with universities that laid claim to the designation because they might have granted, say, an MBA.
(DIR) Post #AkYX4TC4JAV8JTuvWi by indigoparadox@mastodon.social
2024-08-02T12:05:10Z
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@FeralRobots @ics @skye @futurebird My university had a bunch of colleges within it for each area of study. 😌 Like the "SUNY University College of Business."
(DIR) Post #AkYX4TrXoxg6O7K3Au by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-02T12:09:53Z
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@indigoparadox @FeralRobots @ics @skye You are telling me you went to a place called "The State University of New York University College of Business"This is almost as bad as I guy I knew whose *official* job title was "Special Assistant to the Deputy Assistant Special Secretary" (or SADASS as he often reminded us)
(DIR) Post #AkYXFA1LvssA2F0EN6 by indigoparadox@mastodon.social
2024-08-02T12:11:59Z
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@futurebird @FeralRobots @ics @skye The extra "University" may or may not have been part of the official name, or just included for illustrative purposes because not everyone knows what SUNY is. 😌I'm not actually sure which college most of my classes were in... there was a mix. :thaenkin:
(DIR) Post #AkYXVKAtwpsiA1B0Mq by FeralRobots@mastodon.social
2024-08-02T12:14:43Z
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@indigoparadox @futurebird Yeh, now I'm sitting here personifying the SUNY university centers to imagine which one it might be 😆.*@ics @skye _*but do not expect you to say!
(DIR) Post #AkYXYTarNzVmEzozOy by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-02T12:15:10Z
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@indigoparadox @FeralRobots @ics @skye Well there is also "CUNYCC" or City University of New York City College" because one of the college in CUNY is called "City College" we also have "Manhattan College" although both are in Manhattan.
(DIR) Post #AkYXjLgr6umouloIK0 by patrickhadfield@mastodon.scot
2024-08-02T12:17:14Z
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@futurebird PhD in science, later did an MBA ... (I picked option 1.)
(DIR) Post #AkYXlO638Po2xOZC5I by FeralRobots@mastodon.social
2024-08-02T12:17:06Z
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@futurebird Is CUNYCC different from CCNY?@indigoparadox @ics @skye
(DIR) Post #AkYXpv4gSugAOX5ZT6 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-02T12:18:39Z
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@FeralRobots @indigoparadox @ics @skye No they are the same. So it could also be CUNYCCNYCity University of New York City College New York.
(DIR) Post #AkYYGCExGZonA7QH8i by SteveClough@metalhead.club
2024-08-02T12:23:21Z
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@futurebird I mean, I have a BSc and a BA, so clearly cover the main areas, and a PhD which has some social science aspects.I am an all-rounder.
(DIR) Post #AkYdubl2JP5xeoW9pY by VampiresAndRobots@writing.exchange
2024-08-02T13:26:05Z
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@futurebird @FeralRobots @indigoparadox @ics @skye and to make matters even more complex, some (maybe all?) NY community colleges now have SUNY names, despite being colleges and not universities. Granted, not the biggest deal, considering the one I went to (early 90s) had a mascot of the Hornets. Our school intranet was called the horNET. Go ahead, say it out loud. ðŸ«
(DIR) Post #AkYeKYli32fnuqCulU by mcsquank@mastodon.online
2024-08-02T13:31:19Z
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@futurebird undergrad literature and grad biology. i selected stem
(DIR) Post #AkYpoGEmbrEScsAgfQ by andydangerous@hachyderm.io
2024-08-02T15:40:03Z
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@futurebird my college only awarded BAs so I got a BA in fine arts (more like a BFA) and a BA in Geosciences (more like a BS) 🤷
(DIR) Post #AkYyVhLaUW6on5Zs6S by daviddlevine@wandering.shop
2024-08-02T17:17:26Z
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@futurebird @indigoparadox @FeralRobots @ics @skye When I attended Washington University in St. Louis I lived in a suburb called University City, MO. This is the City of University City City Hall. (It even said so on the sign, but I can't find a photo of the sign online.)
(DIR) Post #AkZ46RVUqZlq9HYLDc by CoolerPseudonym@wandering.shop
2024-08-02T18:19:53Z
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@futurebird Humanities
(DIR) Post #AkZ7L7eZFDqSmPUGjw by robotistry@sciencemastodon.com
2024-08-02T18:56:25Z
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@futurebird BA in Engineering and Music - so STEM but also Arts? MS and PhD in STEM field.