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It is disingenuous for a school to charge 50k per year and wonder why folks are concerned about getting jobs. Humanities should join STEM, not fight it. Don't
by mathattack 13y ago
It is disingenuous for a school to charge 50k per year and wonder why folks are concerned about getting jobs. Humanities should join STEM, not fight it. Don't convince someone to study philosophy instead of CS, convince them to study it in addition to CS. Teach the math majors world languages so they can read German and French papers. But don't stand as an island, because at current prices humanities are a terrible buy.
- Mikeb85 13y agoYou mean students aren't forced to take humanities courses? For my business degree I had nearly 2 whole years of humanities courses...
- mathattack 13y agoIn a lot of programs, students aren't required to. In others (my undergrad, where I had a CS major) the business majors were required to take 7 or 8 classes in the humanities, but they were mostly 101 level classes in 300 person lecture halls with multiple choice exams. This isn't what's implied by "teaching critical thinking" that the supporters of these departments use to justify their jobs. Even where they are required to, I think it can be useful to go deep on a subject (say History or Psychology) as long as it's paired with something practical (say Economics).
- Mikeb85 13y agoThat's unfortunate. We were required to take so many senior humanities courses that I'm 2/3rds of the way to an economics or philosophy degree...
- mathattack 13y agoIt's a sign that you're in a good program. :-) The strange this is our undergraduate business was highly ranked but the non-business classes were completely watered down. Why not go all the way on the 2nd degree? I'm against philosophy degrees on their own, but it does go good supporting others. You can never get too much economics either.