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The drop in college graduates who majored in humanities ranges between 16 percent and 29 percent since 2012. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002. As the economy recovered, so did the humanities. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002.
The study is described in a 2024 draft paper posted on the website of SSRN, formerly known as the SocialScience Research Network. It is currently undergoing revisions with the academic journal Management Science. Some college instructors seem to be aware of their human frailty.
None of that math may be necessary for the vast majority of undergraduates who don’t intend to major in science or another STEM field. I felt that it really gave me breadth as a human being.” This story also appeared in Mind/Shift But those same students don’t have many of the math skills that professors think they actually do need.
Related: How to save the humanities? We definitely have those students who are baristas one year out, but they’re also writing a novel on the side,” said Kathryn Foster, president of the University of Maine at Farmington, which also focuses on the liberal arts. It appears true that the very definition of “liberal arts” is a problem.
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For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. The UC Davis California History SocialScience Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past.
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It definitely held me back.”. Archaeology of Human Origins” may sound interesting, but if you wait too long to focus on your economics major, you may not get in all the requirements you need. Let’s say you are a Florida State University student looking for a class to fulfill its history/socialscience requirement.
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The humanities taught me I could do it. The simple message that majoring in the humanities pays off is being pushed aggressively by this university and a handful of others; they hope to reverse decades of plummeting enrollment in subjects that teach skills employers say they need from graduates but arent getting.
No matter your political views, this is a crisis for American higher education, and its leaders are definitely paying attention. And so that’s a reason why the socialscience might not be as robust as it might be. If we don’t, then we will be complicit in our own demise. Maybe that’s a problem.
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