Need advice with degree plan for TESC. Human Services vs. Psychology

[sanantone]

My thinking is that a lot if employers will overlook people with Liberal Arts degrees... they don't seem to have the best reputation.

Not for the types of jobs human services majors can get. Human services is nothing but an applied art anyway much like criminal justice, counseling, and social work except that social work can come with a license at the undergraduate level. Human services majors are at the same level and, arguably, even lower than the more recognizable degrees in the behavioral sciences. Physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics are liberal arts subjects, by the way.

I think an BA LDAS degree is more likely to say that I concentrated in something specific, but wasn't a particular degree that the college offered.

To me, learner designed area of study sounds like individualized studies, multidisciplinary studies, general studies, interdisciplinary studies, liberal arts, and liberal studies. At least if someone chose to do a BSAST or BSBA in an LDAS, one would still have an official degree title of Bachelor of Science in Applied Science and Technology or Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. The BS and BA in an LDAS don't have the same advantage.