Major Decisions: College, Career, and the Case for the Humanities
Laurie Grobman, "Major Decisions: College, Career, and the Case for the Humanities"
English | ISBN: 0812251989 | 2020 | 240 pages | PDF | 8 MB
English | ISBN: 0812251989 | 2020 | 240 pages | PDF | 8 MB
A practical how-to guide for students and a powerful reminder of the value of a humanities education
In recent decades, the humanities have struggled to justify themselves in the American university. The costs of attending a four-year college have exploded, resulting in intense pressure on students to major in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), business, and other pre-professional or "practical" majors that supposedly transmit more marketable skills than can be acquired from the humanities.
But, as Laurie Grobman and E. Michele Ramsey argue, this vision of humanities majors idly pondering the meaning of life for four years is inaccurate.
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