Critically Informed Citizens!
A excerpt from my notes of the most memorable lecture of my University career. A passion-infused discussion on how to defend ourselves when people ask “Humanities? What are you going to do with that degree?”
Humanities as my major is what I will become. $80K, maybe not, but a well rounded dreamer? Certainly. There is a relationship between the humanities, and being a critically informed citizen. We are not simply our job! We are citizens with responsibilities! The exact years in which we have grown up have showed the most elemental changes to our world & it’s structures… ever. As humanities majors, we slow things down, and make people think! We make them think “why?”
We, in humanities are DREAMERS.
Tuition well spent.
This is a great excerpt. Before I decided I was going to pursue a psychology degree, I got a lot of advice from some of my favourite high school teachers. One of them (a math teacher) pointed out that while most programs teach you how to do specific things, a humanities program teaches you how to think in a certain way. This has stuck with me more than anything else that math teacher ever taught me.
