humanities majors
-
The Self-Fulfilling Death of Humanities
Fearing the depreciating value of the humanities fields drives away talent and financial resources, concludes Benjamin Winterhalter, writing for the Atlantic. Humanities subjects include research areas often difficult to assess through quantitative methods, but, despite policymakers’ interest in statistical data,…
-
Bad News for English Majors
Last week, we blogged about how, contrary to popular opinion, English majors are, in fact, employable. But, argues Verlyn Klinkenborg, the misperception that the humanities are impractical career-wise is actually hurting the field, making it less practical in every way.…
-
Good News for English Majors
English majors and other humanities students, take heart: your diploma’s not so useless after all! Though arts, humanities, and social sciences are often disparaged as impractical, Time‘s Annette Gordon-Reed argues that they prepare students for the job market quite well in…
-
Why I Studied The Humanities
“Studying the humanities improves your ability to read and write. No matter what you do in life, you will have a huge advantage if you can read a paragraph and discern its meaning (a rarer talent than you might suppose)……