Week 1: Two Cultures

     Being that I am a geography major and second year transfer I have rarely spent time on the south side of campus. As a humanities major, all of my classes have been on the north side and funny enough, most of the geography courses are oddly in the same room. As touched upon earlier, UCLA is divided into two sections, the north side being humanities and the south being STEM. It is in this physical separation that I believe this two cultures ideology has been visualized and present in my immediate life.

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  After completing this weeks readings, many of my own personal feelings about the divide in UCLA's campus and the general split of humanities and science has been cemented. As author Snow said " This polarization is sheer loss to us all. To us as people, and to our society. It is at the same time practical and intellectual and creative loss..." . After reading this quote I too have always felt the lack of interconnectivity between these subjects, and have felt that this divide has continuously hindered academia in reaching its furthest potential. 

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    After watching the video Changing education Paradigms a lot of educational practices that were taught to me as a child seemed to make a lot more sense. This video does a great job in explaining on how capitalization and industrialization has shaped and fueled the separation of humanities and sciences. Furthermore aiding in the specialization of specific roles needed for the growth of our capitalist based economy.

Citations 

Gurr, Jens Martin. “Snow, Charles Percy: The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution.” Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020, pp. 1–2., https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_17129-1.

“RSA Animate: Changing Education Paradigms.” YouTube, YouTube, 14 Oct. 2010, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U.