New data on college majors confirms old trend: technocracy is crushing humanism

Re:New data on college majors confirms old trend: technocrac... by defnotadog on Friday August 10, 2018 @12:41PM (#17734836)

I was lucky enough to go an engineering school that required us to take a lot of humanities. In retrospect, I wish I had taken more than the minimum.

I think schools need to do a better job requiring humanities majors to take STEM classes in the same way I was required to take humanities. I have plenty of friends in humanities who took the bare minimum which was only one class (physics for poets or something similar) and a lab (which could be psych or some other soft science).

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:New data on college majors confirms old trend: technocrac... by joanofarf on Friday August 10, 2018 @02:55PM (#17735878)

>I think schools need to do a better job requiring humanities majors to take STEM classes in the same way I was required to take humanities.

This. And incorporating more technology/computing into the humanities themselves.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:New data on college majors confirms old trend: technocrac... by dorchadas on Friday August 10, 2018 @10:33PM (#17737953)

Exactly. Both fields have so much they can learn from each other. I'm really glad that I ended up doing a STEM major with a humanities minor (almost double major, but class fell through final semester). It taught me a lot and I'd say I definitely learned more useful skills in my humanities courses, working as a teacher now (of a STEM subject). There's just so much STEM fields can't teach, like how to interact with and understand other people; it's just not something that can be boiled down to a science.

[ Parent | on HN ]