<p>What would be the point of science and technology if we didn’t have the arts and the humanities?</p>
<p>My daughter is going to major in French and Studio Art. I can’t tell you the number of people that have tried to talk her out of this - including her guidance counselor. We did talk a lot about her possible careers choices, etc since she was majoring in traditional humanities types majors. However, at the end of the day, she wouldn’t be happy at all if she majored in anything else. Who knows what the future holds but I would prefer my kid to be passionate about her subjects instead of slogging through solely to earn some future paycheck.</p>
<p>My sister majored in Equine Studies and she’s one of the most successful in our family. So, I think passion is the key to success regardless of what newspaper, etc want to try and tell us.</p>
<p>@californiaa- I feel bad for you, but more importantly I feel bad for your teachers. Your lack of critical thinking and logical reasoning ability makes you a terrible STEM student. </p>
<p>I agree that some gender/race/sexuality classes are not particularly helpful for most people. The obvious solution is to take classes in history, art, music, economics, psychology, and political science. There’s a lot more to the humanities than X-identity classes.</p>
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<p>According to the Econ/Business faculty and students I’ve talked to, it’s more a view that they’re in two separate academic camps. </p>
<p>Business majors/Profs feel Econ scholars/Profs are overly theoretical. Econ majors/Profs feel Business majors don’t pay enough attention to economic theory.</p>
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She’s a STEM professor. :)</p>
<p>Oh good, a STEM professor without critical thinking skills
(Not that I believe it)</p>
<p>“I can assure you that certain philosophy classes at my school do have waiting lists.”</p>
<p>In many cases waiting lists for courses can be due to the teaching skills of the professor. For example an accounting course can have a waiting list for a particular instructor.</p>