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On 10/8/14 8:53 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 08 Oct 2014 16:05:00 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 10/8/14 2:35 PM, wrote:

My buddy has a Bachelors of SCIENCE degree in math.

And you think *science* is not one of the liberal arts, eh?

Perhaps this will help:

Liberal arts, college or university curriculum aimed at imparting
general knowledge and developing general intellectual capacities in
contrast to a professional, vocational, or technical curriculum. In the
medieval European university the seven liberal arts were grammar,
rhetoric, and logic (the trivium) and geometry, arithmetic, music, and
astronomy (the quadrivium). In modern colleges and universities the
liberal arts include the study of literature, languages, philosophy,
history, mathematics, and science as the basis of a general, or liberal,
education. Sometimes the liberal-arts curriculum is described as
comprehending study of three main branches of knowledge: the humanities
(literature, language, philosophy, the fine arts, and history), the
physical and biological sciences and mathematics, and the social sciences.

From the Britannica.

A B.S. in Math is not, per se, a professional, vocational, or technical
curriculum.

You are using a pretty liberal interpretation of a liberal arts
degree.

It's the interpretation of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and is the
classical definition.

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