05-25-2020, 04:03 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-25-2020, 04:08 PM by freeloader.)
A friend of mine did an undergraduate degree in American studies and went to Harvard Law School. Guess the purpose is to go to Harvard Law School?
If you want a real answer, I think it’s part of the “area studies” movement in academia that sought to highlight the operation of culture outside of and across the often constricting and arbitrary boundaries of academic disciplines. At its best, a student in an area studies discipline would try to look holistically at a culture by exploring art, music, literature, history, sociology, anthropology, and possibly other disciplines. At worst, it’s a degree for someone who has taken a bunch of random humanities and social sciences classes so that they can actually graduate...and then go to Harvard Law School.
If you want a real answer, I think it’s part of the “area studies” movement in academia that sought to highlight the operation of culture outside of and across the often constricting and arbitrary boundaries of academic disciplines. At its best, a student in an area studies discipline would try to look holistically at a culture by exploring art, music, literature, history, sociology, anthropology, and possibly other disciplines. At worst, it’s a degree for someone who has taken a bunch of random humanities and social sciences classes so that they can actually graduate...and then go to Harvard Law School.
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