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Roughly one-fourth of admitted students claimed an interest in the humanities??a 2.7 percent increase—while those planning to study the social sciences dropped from 24.6 percent last year to 21.3 percent this year...
Douthat also urged students to take more classes in the humanities??especially those in western civilization, history, and literature...
...urged graduates to channel their respective areas of expertise—may they be the hard sciences or the humanities??into exposing the urgency of the global crisis at hand and actively working to diminish its repercussions...
...arts and humanities.Speakers during the two-day career showcase event included famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76 and Harvard Law School Professor Noah R. Feldman ’92, both of whom joined Faust in arguing for the importance of an education in the arts and humanities??a focus that Faust has repeatedly stressed over the first year and a half of her presidency.The event represented a collaborative effort spanning various sectors of the University, from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Dean of Arts and Humanities to the Office of Career Services.In...
...toward keeping the humanities relevant and alluring to undergraduates. As higher education becomes more and more specialized and the job market becomes increasingly competitive, the temptation to concentrate in a subject with “real-world” applicability is strong. Yet English—and the other humanities??are valuable courses of study, along with more “practical” majors like economics or chemistry, but only if departments are willing to develop their curriculum to suit the times. Harvard’s new English program allows for much greater flexibility of study...