Week 1 Blog

Hello everyone, my name is Gillian and I am part of mainly the North campus community as a Psychology major. This course will allow me to better understand the bridge between art and science, which Psychology is a part of, and use that with the growing technological advancements in this day and age. 

Snow and Vesna’s perspective as writers in the articles shows a common theme of integrating the two cultures: science and art (Snow 12). They both believe that scholars of science and art should collaborate to bridge the gap and solve problems (Vesna 124). At UCLA specifically, we see the two cultures of art and science in the North and South Campus. Many of the building we see correlate with the architectural patterns as described in the lecture, where the art buildings of the South campus have more church-like features (e.g. Powell library and Royce Hall) (See Fig. 1 and Fig. 2) and the North campus has more corporate-style buildings (Vesna) (See Fig. 3). The articles revealed the immense separation of UCLA’s campus and the questionable unity on campus. Most South campus students do not know much about North campus, and North campus students do not know much about South campus students as seen in this article (Jung, “A Campus Divided”). Because these ideas are so divided, it is interesting to see how science and art may be resisting each other. Knowing this difference in the two cultures, I can be aware about the differing opinions in different departments to collaborate with each other with an open mind. Knowing various perspectives while being open-minded will allow our community to be cohesive and contribute to new and better solutions (Zhu and Goyal, 3).

Fig.1. Royce Hall at UCLA North Campus (roycehall.org)

Fig. 2. Interior of Powell Library at UCLA North Campus (blog.admissions.ucla.edu)

Fig. 3. Building in South Campus at UCLA(blog.admissions.ucla.edu)

Works Cited

Jung, Justin. “A Campus Divided.” PRIME, 2021, prime.dailybruin.com/justinnorth&southcampus. Accessed 05 Apr. 2024.

Snow, C.P. “The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution.” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, vol. 3, no. 4, June 1960, pp. 565–566, doi:10.1353/pbm.1960.0028.

Vesna, Victoria. “Lecture Part III: Two Cultures Pt 3.”

Vesna, Victoria. “Toward a Third Culture: Being in Between.” Leonardo, vol. 34, no. 2, Apr. 2001, pp. 121–125, doi:10.1162/002409401750184672. 

Zhu, Lian, and Yogesh Goyal. “Art and science: Intersections of art and science through time and paths forward.” EMBO reports vol. 20,2 (2019): e47061. doi:10.15252/embr.201847061

Image Citations

UCLA Bruin Blog, blog.admissions.ucla.edu/. Accessed 04 Apr. 2024.

UCLA Bruin Blog, blog.admissions.ucla.edu/. Accessed 04 Apr. 2024.

Roycehall, roycehall.org. Accessed 04 Apr. 2024.

Comments

  1. nate hoffmanApril 7, 2024 at 5:31 PM

    Hi, Gillian. Great work, as your blog reflected a lot of knowledge in regards to the readings and lecture. I highly agree with your last statement. Although it is important that both art and science individuals to be involved in the department of their expertise, the divide between these disciplines makes us more segregated than ever. Being open-minded allows us to grow and understand each other more extensively. If both literary individuals and the science groups were to conjoin, we can have a community of better discourse, since ideologies from both realms are being expressed. The difficult part about this is whether to determine when to draw the line between art and science. Nevertheless, I believe it is possible to achieve so and using the education system as a starting point is a good step forward.

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