You’re right that a lot of these fad social science majors don’t really teach anything except political indoctrination. However, some subjects that don’t have real practical applications do teach critical thinking skills. The social sciences and humanities in general aren’t worthless, but they do lend themselves to low standards more easily than the natural sciences.

Some people come to learn about a specific field or profession – scientists, doctors, lawyers, engineers. Others come simply to learn and don’t worry about finding a job in that field afterwards. Either they have something they can do already, or have enough money that they don’t have to worry about that. School should be for education. It’s not there to train you for a job.

i do no longer understand approximately doing it as a call for for an undergrad. i think of it may be an incredible requirement for a graduate degree. i’m an historian, and a brilliant form of of the extra theory-upsetting historic suggestions of late have come from the sciences. Jared Diamond’s Gun Germs and metallic is the main in call case in point, yet no longer the only one. i think of that historians have a complicated time coping with suggestions like those because of the fact they arrive from any such completely diverse set of presumptions. lots (and in actuality maximum) of historic previous comes from an attitude that prioritizes human decision making the two on the gang or man or woman point. So while somebody like Diamond comes alongside and says that environment is destiny, historians do no longer probably understand a thank you to react. i do no longer agree that “clinical” historic previous is ever going to change human historic previous, written with the theory that people, to a minimum of a undeniable degree, pick their very own destiny. between the procedures that Marxist scholarship located itself as clinical became by ability of taking destiny very practically thoroughly out of human palms. i think of interior the top that there are quite a few limits to what technology, the two interior the experience of organic sciences or the extra clinical facet of social technology is going to describe correct to the human previous. it is why i think of that historic previous will proceed to be interior the arts departments at maximum universities, and rightly so. yet historians are ultimate their suggestions to a brilliant form of large suggestions and procedures of thinking correct to the international by ability of ignoring the organic sciences. provides: i assume in looking over my reaction that I presented historic previous as a social technology and then claimed it became interior the arts. i assume I see it as being quite the two. In another countries and in some US universities, it quite is secure as a social technology.

Well, personally, I hate AP Biology right now in high school, so I don’t plan on pursuing it further. Chemistry… NO way. Physics.. ehh. Too much math involved.

In the end, people want to take the easy way out. =]

However, I plan on psychology, which I’d consider a natural science.

Because pure sciences have right and wrong answers and you must learn them to pass. The soft sciences only have opinions so everyone is entitled to one so it is almost impossible to fail.