andreasDESMA9: Blog Week 1

Blog Week 1

Andrea Streips

Looking at the separation between art and science in Snow's, “Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution”, has enabled me to develop an alternate perspective in terms of applying the ideas and concepts to my personal life. The concepts provided were clear and concise and feel that I can apply the two cultures of art and science to almost everything that I surround myself with. From a personal perspective, I work in the PR/Entertainment industry that demonstrates how the more "artistic" side of PR has progressed into a more "scientific/technological" industry through social media within the last five years. We see two cultures everywhere because with the advances in technology, especially social media, art and science are now almost interconnected because of how they go hand and hand with each other.

Ucla is another great example of two cultures through the different stereotypes we have between north and south campus. North campus is definitely stereotyped as a more sublime environment not only because north campus is the part of UCLA geared towards the more "artistic" students, but even its scenery. On north campus you can find students lounging around on the grass reading books and casually strolling to class. On the other hand, south campus has the stereotype of being the "science and math" part of school where everyone is always stressed and scrambling to either get to a class or a review or a lab. The difference of infrastructure between north and south campus is also very apparent. South campus is filled with very harsh, cold, modern structures while north campus is filled with warm brick buildings and a lot more greenery.

Through the readings from this week, I was also able to apply the concepts found in Snow's writing to my personal life. I grew up in a family from Europe where everyone is either a doctor or engineer and being artistic or studying liberal arts was always frowned upon. However, science and math have never been my niche in school, so my parents have found it very hard at times for their daughter to be stereotyped as a liberal arts student rather then a medical or engineer. For them the stereotypes described in the video lectures are very valid. Overall, there are two cultures in all facets of life, but it is a natural aspect of life and of human development.