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What if you infuse your papers with some minority and gender studies crap (even if it's not related)? Wouldn't it improve your grade?

• irremediable 11y ago
  Well, if you hadn't studied those topics in sufficient depth, the examiner would doubtless decrease your mark for writing crap. If they weren't relevant, your mark would be decreased for writing irrelevant things. I suspect your comment was tongue-in-cheek, but I'm sick of humanities-bashing. If people don't like culture, that's fine, but they don't have to go around oozing their contempt.
  • logicchains 11y ago
    >If people don't like culture, that's fine I thought the whole point of the modern humanities is that culture (or at least western culture) is evil and oppressive. In my experience the average humanities course is not concerned with "culture" in the "cultured" sense of the word, which I assume is the definition you were using. The university I attended recently dropped all the Greek, Latin and Classics courses, for instance, and fired (negotiated generous early retirement packages with) all the staff who had taught them.
    • irremediable 11y ago
      I disagree that modern humanities have abandoned those topics. I know plenty of people studying Greek, Latin, Classics, etc. Especially if you count people studying them as modules, rather than as the entire focus of their degree. I get the impression you don't value things like anthropology, non-Western history and gender studies. Correct me if I'm wrong. I'd disagree here as well, though. I value and respect those disciplines, and I don't see their growth as a bad thing.
      • logicchains 11y ago
        I suspect if you compared the relative number of people studying those topics now to fifty years ago, there'd be significantly fewer now studying classics etc. I've nothing against anthropology, gender studies etc. as disciplines, just with how they're often taught, with a focus on promoting particular ideologies rather than detached critical thinking.
    • wfo 11y ago
      I hope you don't honestly believe the garbage you are spouting, and are just trying to be incendiary on purpose to try to work people up and make a political point. In that case you should simply stop.
  • hnnewguy 11y ago
    >but I'm sick of humanities-bashing Humanities (crap), finance (useless banksters), business (lol MBAs), economics (the an inevitable discussion every year here about how the Nobel Prize isn't a real Nobel). It's annoying, but I'm used to it.
    • irremediable 11y ago
      Well said. And yeah, I usually don't complain, but it does make me sad. Science, mathematics and computers are wonderful, and I love them. But there is more to life, and people shouldn't try to tear down others because they happen to be interested in those other things.
• ethanbond 11y ago
  Wow, what a productive comment. Nothing like a quick and irrelevant jab at the humanities!
  • M8 11y ago
    Not really, I have nothing against e.g. ancient and modern languages, literature, philosophy, general history, archaeology, general anthropology, law, semiotics and linguistics.
• ponderatul 11y ago
  I wasn't looking for grade improvement, I was looking to point out the discrepancy in grades between the hard and soft sciences. Whereas for Math, CompSci, students are graded on the 0 - 100 scale the more social sciences are studied on the 0 - 70ish, as there are no solid requirements for each milestone grade (i.e. 70; 80; 90), as opposed to the hard sciences.