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I agree with this statement. I had two majors: Religion (history/study of, not theology) and Computer Science. My Religion degree, esp. when we got to things l

I agree with this statement. I had two majors: Religion (history/study of, not theology) and Computer Science. My Religion degree, esp. when we got to things like post-modern criticism and Hegel, were leap-years more difficult than anything we had to study in computer science. So, yeah, I take umbrage to people saying that the humanities are easy. (The Religion degree was incredibly interesting, too, though ultimately not terribly practical for anything but law, and I wasn't really interested in doing that.)

throwaway894345 6y ago
To be clear the argument wasn’t that the degrees weren’t difficult but that they aren’t valuable to employers and one shouldn’t expect to easily pay down their debts without a more valuable degree. Majoring in Religion alone would be imprudent for most people.
- necrotic_comp 6y ago
  That's fair. Tbh, at the school that I went to (top 5 liberal arts school), studying any sort of humanity more or less set you up to pursue either a professional humanities degree (e.g. JD/MBA) or an academic degree (e.g. PhD). To your point, though, studying just for interest is probably not prudent, and it's also probably not prudent to study humanities if you're not prepared to attain a subsequent degree/go on the academic track.