I went to a college of liberal arts and sciences. There was a big load of required humanities courses, but the college had a relatively good physics department

I went to a college of liberal arts and sciences. There was a big load of required humanities courses, but the college had a relatively good physics department and a terrific math department. And math and physics were my interests: So, I majored in math and had nearly a major in physics. For the humanities, they claimed to teach about people, but at the time I couldn't see that they were doing at all well at that, and later I concluded that actually the humanities are not at all good about teaching about people, e.g., get as much that is wrong as right and, really, darned little good insight, but that parts of clinical psychology could teach some important and reasonably credible lessons about people. I really liked music, and the record collection in the library was terrific, but I never took a course in music -- later started violin and made some okay progress eventually. But for the humanities courses I took, i.e., was force fed, I came to hate as nonsense, misleading about people, and otherwise a waste of time. E.g., history: I wanted to learn some about history, but the history course was absurd, from some pompous, pretentious text with no overview and otherwise nearly impenetrable. And the darned course took so much time before year 1 that it never got to the 20th or even the 19th centuries. Bummer. Finally I learned some about history from some books and some relatively serious TV documentaries, e.g., Victory at Sea, The Battle of Britain. The courses? Bummers. In the history courses, I wanted to learn why, that is, the causes or at least the candidate causes -- metals, domesticated animals, open ocean sailing, relatively productive crops, etc., but the courses essentially ignored all concepts of causes. Bummer. Overall, IMHO, the humanities are suffering from lack of good methodology. In particular, their results are open to a lot of individual interpretation and definite maybes, and it's tough to have the work be cumulative in any very useful sense.