I'm not even joking when I say I truly believe business majors have destroyed society.
How much difference is there between engineering and art anyways?
One of these is an unending exercise in humility and futility, and the other tries to solve abstract problems people were never even aware of.
There are not that many, if you're a graphical engineer
There ain't no rift in STEAM.
What degrees are not included in STEAM, though? Feels like an overly broad category that isn't as useful as STEM
The Humanities. History. English. Linguistics. The Classics. Business. Economics. Finance. Management. Marketing. Law. Criminal Justice. Paralegal. Kineseology. Library science. Nursing. Spanish. Africana. Education.
You get the point. So, why is STEM not enough and SHLAME-T or something else fucking stupid? Some examples. Theater. Set design. Have you ever seen the riggings and sand bag counterweights? Mechanical props? You could say those are made by "engineers", which is true in a sense, but most often they are engineered by people who themselves have experience in theater. Why? They need to know how it works just as much as how it is used. Same with lighting and sound design
Studio art. Painting. Have you ever seen an artist stick their thumb out at arm's length? They are using it to get an understanding of perspective and scale. It's geometry. Da Vinci used geometry extensively. Look at the Vitruvian Man or Mona Lisa. Little known fact. Mona Lisa isn't finished. Da Vinci never painted over all the circles and triangles.
Ballet. They way they extend their arms and legs is to adjust their center of mass for balance. To maintain static equilibrium. When they spin and move their arms in and out, their angular velocity increases and decreases to conserve angular momentum. In the most literal sense, they are doing physics. They can explain gyroscopic stabalization better than most STEM grad students, because they know how it feels.
Their are loads of other examples. The mathematics of music. Sculpting with CAD. The billion and one uses for 3d printing. Geometry and mosiacs. The 'elegance' of mathematical physics. Poetic code. But, back to Da Vinci. The concept of a "renaisance man", is not one who is a master of STEM. They are a master of STEAM. Take the arts away, and you lose half the genius.
I would say the only way the business majors keep making people think they are useful is precisely because they profit off the labor of artists
