[Brad from Tennessee]

Rest in peace.

[rickmichaels]

[workerbee]

Then there’s my stepdaughter, considered Dramatic Arts as her major. You know it’s bad when her liberal-arts college advisor has suggested she think long and hard about that one.

[beef]

Q: How does an engineer get a humanities major off of his front porch?

A: He pays her for the pizza.

[rarestia]

Employed English major checking in. I have a graduate certificate in professional writing and make damn good money as an engineer and technical writer.

If you go into the humanities without a backup plan, like computer repair or help desk experience, you’re a moron.

[NEMDF]

Classic FR:

OH THE HUGN MANATEE!!

[Darren McCarty]

"I think that's because they have a very primitive and reductive view of what is essential in society," [Homi Bhabha, director of the Humanities Center at Harvard] said. "There are jobs, and even in business, the humanities play a major role."

And in business, there's nothing regarding humanities that I can't learn from personal experience - which is more accurate that what is taught in ethnic/gender/homo/transit studies.

[BobL]

“The humanities division at Harvard University, for centuries a standard-bearer of American letters, is attracting fewer undergraduates amid concerns about the degree’s value in a rapidly changing job market.”

It also doesn’t help to have a faculty that is more left-wing then even three-quarters of the incoming students.

[BfloGuy]

The Humanities were killed by the very people who teach them. At one time [even in the early seventies], they were rigourous courses of study designed to form a well-rounded individual.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I haven’t been without a job since graduation over 30 years ago so I guess my philosophy degree didn’t screw me up. Of course I wasn’t crazy enough to try to find a job in that field.

[PapaBear3625]

Back when a humanities degree meant the graduate could read complex material with understanding, write in a professional manner, apply rigorous logic to discussions, and had a wide understanding of the history and philosophy of Western civilization, then humanities degrees had value.

As soon as they just meant that the student had spent four years absorbing Leftist propaganda, they lost all value.