Interestingly enough, I used to be a science major who teased my friend for being a psychology major because it was not a "true" South Campus or North Campus Major. Today, I am a proud psychology major, that embraces the fact that my major in particular incorporates attributes from both South and North Campus. Although I am taught about the scientific reasons for actions and beliefs people may harbor, I am also taught the social aspects of these topics as well.
That being said, one of the sources of information for Week 1 that caught my attention was the video titled Changing Education Paradigms. This video discusses how society uses and emphasizes an outdated education system that exalts logic and science while discouraging creativity. When I was younger, this same education system required me to choose either the arts or science, but never encouraged both. C.P. Snow's idea of Two Cultures plays into the schooling system vastly and parallels with this video, such that we are encouraged to be creative at a young age and then told to
focus on the standards of a structured class and the teacher educating us. This restricts our creativity with boundaries. UCLA is no different, such that I have found that although higher institutions of learning allow people to have more autonomy when it comes to what they desire to study, it restricts their fields of study and their levels of intellectual growth to the standards of the course they are taking and the expectations of the teachers and the teaching assistants. Moreover, our campus is divided based on Snow's Two Cultures: South Campus represents the science culture while North Campus Represents the literary arts. As Professor Vesna mentions in Lecture 2, both cultures are plagued with stereotypes. Similarly, UCLA's campus is no different, such that South Campus and North Campus possess their own stereotypes pertaining to grading systems, class difficulty, etc. Overall, I have learned to love the intersection of both science and arts in my major. The materials from Week 1 of this course have reinforced my belief that majors on this campus should not be divided into different hemispheres. Instead, we should acknowledge that we all exist on the same campus and utilize both science and art together in any major that we have chosen--even if it is in the smallest of ways.
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