Week 1- Two Cultures

UCLA’s campus, like many other campuses around the nation, is divided by art majors and math/science majors. At UCLA the north is considered the artsy campus, and the south is considered the math and science campus. The buildings in the middle of campus that separate the north and south are the majors that don’t really fit into either of the categories (sociology, history etc.). Vesna highlights this idea in her article, Toward a Third Culture: Being in Between. The idea of a triangle, and the point of the triangle being these ideologies that don’t fit in one extreme categories or the other, or are a combination of the two. For example, I am a sociology major, and I have taken a stats class, a design class, a biology class, and a poetry class. My major requires art, technology, math and science. 
(Courtesy of U.C.L.A. : http://www.ucla.edu/pdf/ucla-campus-map.pdf)
While Brockman may argue that both extremes will never need to come together, the modern education system disagrees. In your first few years of college you are required to take general courses that have a huge range of learning material. No matter what you would like your career field to be, no matter what you are interested in, and no matter what your major is, everyone has to take a course in art, history, English, math, and science. While these courses might not be necessary for the students future, over time we have seen that it is important that everyone have a sense of basic knowledge, and dabble throughout the range of art and science. 

(https://www.stuff.tv/features/best-ipad-pro-art-therapy-apps-people-who-cant-draw)
Society has also shown us a need for a crossover with art and science because the demand for artistic technology. People are demanding colorful iphones, colorful lights for concerts, automobiles with modern inter design. The same goes for the other way. Artists are beginning to use technology for their art. Sketching things on ipads, using software like adobe to filter portraits. Artist and scientist/mathematicians may have very different brains, and may think they are better than the others, but the fact of the matter is we need both, and we see the bridge between the two continue to be built every day. 
((http://www.rediff.com/money/slide-show/slide-show-1-auto-stunning-images-of-artistic-cars/20130520.htm )



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Comments

  1. UnknownApril 10, 2017 at 8:06 PM

    I love how you incorporated the ideas from the article into a practical example of the UCLA campus, this had not occurred to me. I like how you are open minded to both the maths and science arguments, it shows willingness to accept other cultures. I think the point about bridging cultures can be related to by so many, it is a fundamental backbone to our society at the moment, especially with the troubles going on in the world. I think it is great that you recognised this.

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  2. prashantspartaApril 11, 2017 at 4:40 PM

    I like the last section where you mentioned how society is the reason to the mix of technology in arts and sciences. For example, how people like their iphone to have colors, or having lights at concerts. I never looked at technology as "artsy" and this kind of opened up my eyes. It was also interesting when you used the word "you", it felt like you were writing to me. The blog as a whole was very well written. Good job!

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  3. UnknownApril 12, 2017 at 9:14 AM

    I loved how you pointed out that the builds in the middle of campus don't really fit into either north or south campus. I didn't even see it this way and I like how you fused the idea of the third culture.
    I also really appreciate that your blog shows how open minded you are about the "3"cultures.
    Also how you bring up technology and art really fascinates me because I never looked at it in that way. It now brings a whole new perspective to me every time I look at my phone.
    Great job!

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