I’m picking up what you’re putting down. I think some of it is just in the name: Mortuary Sciences. But I’ve been wrestling with the expansion of the term STEM. I’m not a gatekeeper and I find gatekeeping boring, but it’s being applied to more and more things. I think @MalevolentPixy was onto something,
There is a reason people tend to graduate from colleges of arts and sciences (where
arts" is “philosophical arts” and not fine arts) and not from a “school of science.” There is a natural interconnection between the two and overlapping ways of thinking. STEM, to me, has always been more of a political construct than a natural category, but I admit I haven’t thought about it more coherently. After all, categories are all political.
