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Which is exactly why it isn’t a real science.
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I don’t disagree, it’s what they named it about fifty years ago to give the field academic weight and credence.
Despite my subsequent academic specialism, I was one of the first year of Economics ‘A’ level students, largely due to being sold the subject by a very good teacher, who enthused about this new ‘science’. Although I passed that A level and understand how markets etc work - I doubt that I ever benefited from it beyond explaining it to my wife (who knows nothing about international economic theory, but is far better than me at managing money);.
Returning to your observation, I’d suggest that social scientists’ characteristic methodologies (reliance on statistical surveys etc.) more closely resemble those of the sciences than the arts and humanities.
Feel we’ve drifted some distance from the subject of the thread, but in the course of that digression, many people have raised interesting points…
Lucky people! The ‘Reaalikoe’ university entrance/end-of-school exams in Finland are 8 hours each.
My daughter has a Batchelors (first class honours) and a Masters in Drama. My mum always praises her with the caveat ‘it’s only drama.’
My brothers who have degrees in science (physics, chemistry) openly concede that her subject is far harder to write about and be tested on as they memorise formulas and then apply them. Yes , there is more to it than that but their words.
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“Lucky people! The ‘Reaalikoe’ university entrance/end-of-school exams in Finland are 8 hours each.”
Surely the Bac equivalent is the Ylioppilastutkinto, what you refer to is more like the concours d’entrée aux grandes ecoles.
It would surprise me very much to learn that a Master’s degree in Drama would be awarded on the basis of a written examination on the ‘subject’.
But one learns something surprising about our universities every day. And your daughter deserves congratulation for her scholarly achievement. 
My mother was much the same in her appraisals of her female grandchildrens’ successes, gives grudgingly with one hand, takes away with the other. What a pity.
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There’s usually a fairly hefty theoretical component (history and analysis but also eg drama in teaching, in the community, as therapy). A godmother of one of my daughters read drama and French and spent her year out in a conservatoire in France, her course sounded fascinating.
Actually now I come to think of it they didn’t call it drama they called it theatre studies.
Brooke’s course may well have been theatre studies. There was a mix of acting and writing.
There are courses which concentrate mainly on performance. My daughter’s course seemed to dwell heavily on playwrights and the arrangement of the stage including breaking the fourth wall. There’s also a lot of philosophical elements.
Your daughter’s course sounds fascinating and very worthwhile, with widespread applications to contemporary issues and the new technologies.
I sometimes wish I’d joined a theatre and developed a career. From my little experience of it I think it may be one of the most direct and collaborative ways of searching for self, and finding one’s self is mere artifice.
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The Ylioppilas is the terminal part of the Realikoe.
Jealousy perhaps?
He also wrote Satori in Paris, which the French ladies in our bilingual Monday mornings found hard going.
English is OK, but the the language of the beat generation was too much.
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Unfortunately my mother bitterly resented any attention women got other than herself, and let it be known. She was sorely afflicted, and it was not ‘her fault’, but her divisiveness caused profound unhappiness especially as it affected her sons’ marriages and their issue.
Similar tragedies have featured throughout history and are well documented in world literature.
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