<p>That’s really interesting about the “College of Liberal Arts and Sciences”. I didn’t believe it, but Google shows that there are tons of such things out there. </p>
<p>The “Liberal Arts” have always included basic science and math, and most older universities have a “College of Arts and Sciences” which basically corresponds to “Liberal Arts”. The traditional distinction was really between knowledge-for-knowledge’s-sake studies and professional degrees, like law, medicine, engineering, architecture, accounting (remembering that in most of the world those were not graduate vs. undergraduate fields), not between “Science” and “Humanities”.</p>
<p>Wikipedia: "In the history of education, the seven liberal arts comprised two groups of studies: the trivium and the quadrivium. Studies in the trivium involved grammar, dialectic (logic), and rhetoric; and studies in the quadrivium involved arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy. These liberal arts made up the core curriculum of the medieval universities. The term liberal in liberal arts is from the Latin word liberalis, meaning “appropriate for free men” (social and political elites), and they were contrasted with the servile arts. The liberal arts thus initially represented the kinds of skills and general knowledge needed by the elite echelon of society, whereas the servile arts represented specialized tradesman skills and knowledge needed by persons who were employed by the elite.</p>
<p>“In the United States, liberal arts colleges are still a particular kind of higher education institution that are typified by their rejection of more direct vocational education during undergraduate studies.”</p>