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Week 1: Two Cultures
Hi everyone, I’m Alex and I’m a 4th year sociology major. Starting at UCLA I figured I’d be surrounded by students in disciplines ‘more similar’ to mine. That ‘humanities and art people’ would have a separate area from ‘science people’. C.P. Snow identifies ‘art’ and ‘science’ as being separated from each other in our society, which is reflected on our own UCLA campus. North campus holds the humanities and art, and South campus holds the sciences. This separation perpetuates stereotypes and confines people to think about each topic in near isolation from one another.
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UCLA graduate Samantha Spotswood writes about these stereotypes, illustrating how “North campus majors are usually thought to be smoking hot with a vibrant social life, but won’t be able to land a job after university. South campus majors are reduced to the ugly nerd stereotype so often overdone in 80s films, but expected to achieve the pinnacle of success in their post-collegiate career,” (2018). This physical divide between the two ‘types’ of disciplines further keeps students confined to their own specialties and ways of thinking. Outside of UCLA, I am involved in themed entertainment, which I believe is one of the industries that is spearheading the connection between art and science through technology.
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Vesna (2001) states that “the bridge… is being triangulated and made more stable with the work of artists utilizing new technologies, who are in active dialogue with both sides,” (p. 122). Themed entertainment is an industry that relies on both specialties and heavily relies on technology such as generative AI and CAD. Through the material of the week, I’ve come to understand more about how art and science are separated and how the separation has manifested itself in education.
“RSA Animate: Changing Education Paradigms.” YouTube, YouTube, 14 Oct. 2010, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U&t=1s.
Snow believed that rethinking education was a solution, stating that “nearly everyone will agree that our school education is too specialised,” (1959, p. 19). Learning about the overlap between science, art, and technology in this course will aid my development in themed entertainment and how the bridge of technology works. Overall, the separation of art and science based on C.P. Snow's theory can be seen in areas such as UCLA’s separation of campuses, and using technology as a bridge between art and science can be seen in industries such as themed entertainment.
Sources
“RSA Animate: Changing Education Paradigms.” YouTube, YouTube, 14 Oct. 2010, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U&t=1s.
Snow, C. P. (1959). The two cultures and the Scientific Revolution. Physics Bulletin, 10(9), 216–217. https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9112/10/9/004
Spotswood, S. (2018, October 18). Being a UCLA north campus girl in a UCLA south campus world. College Magazine. https://www.collegemagazine.com/ucla-north-vs-south-campus/
Vesna, Victoria. “Toward a Third Culture: Being in Between.” Leonardo, vol. 34, no. 2, 2001, pp. 121–125., https://doi.org/10.1162/002409401750184672.
Vesna, V. (2012, March 30). Twocultures part1. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNI7dF3DIAM&t=346s
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