>STEM majors being forced to take humanities courses to keep

I agree with the pic desu.

Parroting everything your professor says and pandering to his viewpoints like an obsequious cuck builds your critical thinking skills, obviously ;)

Because nobody wants to hire a one trick pony with no social skills to work for them. Despite what you may think, being a well rounded individual makes you far more interesting.

>>7958214

>>>/tradeschool/

>>7958231
But you are confused.

Humanities used to mean literature, art and history. That would be perfectly fine.

However, humanities is now women studies, black studies, muslim studies and cuck studies.

That is an education, they are just feeding you their political ideology.

>>7958214
You realize that American STEM students are among the most culturally-empty people in the world, right?
If you went to a Russian lab, for example, and started a conversation about Dostoevsky, you'd have a fairly deep and involved conversation. The same is not true with Americans, who'd probably try to shift the subject to sports or work.
That's why humanities should be a part of a STEM degree, so you're more knowledgeable in aspects outside your field. The problem is that many programs simply allow te students to mark it as Pass/Fail, which leads to them not even trying to learn the material.

>>7958214
because stem kids lack syntax and vocabulary.

>>7958237
>Humanities used to mean
No, that's what it still means.
Unless you go to an absolute shit university, they would never 'make' you take a women studies course.

>>7958237
>cuck studies.
Where can I get my M.A. in Cuck Studies?

>>7958214
> i'm great with plug and chug but don't ever ask me to have an opinion

>>7958246
this

>>7958243

Read a fucking book in your spare time and don't shove that shit down my throat in uni.

>>7958237
Do black studies actually exist? I'm not American. Women's/gender studies have become a bit of a meme online but I'm sure there are interesting topics to be discussed and learned about there. Islamic studies are just as valid as Jewish, Catholic or any other religious studies. You're not brainwashed into those religions either, you just learn about them.

Studying humanities triggers little STEMlords because they can't play around in their safe and sterile playground for autistic children that is known as "natural sciences". They need their hugbox.

>>7958237
I went to a pretty good state school. My humanities were overall pretty good, I AP'd out of a lot of them but one I took was a history class taught by a Woodrow Wilson expert, I learned a lot about WWI, it was writing intensive but the professor was a great guy, although admittedly a socialist, he was not proselytizing anything. He even praised Eisenhower and Nixon, shit on JFK.

The other one I took was a lil sketchy, but I pretty much wrote a take down of Spike Lee over Hurricane Katrina and I got good marks for it despite him probably being against my premise.

Overall I did not witness much cuckery, those historians seemed like reasonable dudes.

>>7958243
>taking mandatory courses in a humanities subject automatically endows you with cultural literacy
Not buying it.

Forcing students to jump through hoops, read entry-level western canon and regurgitate the standard 'critical analysis' talking points is probably the fastest way to make them despise literature, actually.

>>7958243
Or maybe people who signed up for STEM don't give a shit about Dostoevsky or any other philosopher who spout subjective bullshit next to their pensive looking black and white picture. I honestly don't care about how Descartes ''proves'' the existence of God and how Kant thinks there's an objective morality.

>>7958268
I mean really, is there anything that sucks the soul out of culture more than having your reading of a piece of literature graded against a rubric?

>>7958232
>>7958232
>>>/pyramidscheme/

>He actually bought into the baby boomer 'well-rounded' BA meme!

>>7958231
But you learn all the actual social skills in commerical/engineering management classes including doing presentations, public speaking etc.

Why do I need learn about feminism and how being black makes me special and oppressed?

They should scrap lib arts, take the electives to the business departments where people actually have real world skills instead of the bullshit commie, hippie shit.

>>7958257
>I have lots of opinions on things but don't ever ask me to take a stand on something falsifiable!

>>7958294
Falsifiability is a meme

>>7958302
>U CANT KNOW NUFFIN

This question again.

Ok, look. Once upon a time, regular people did not go to university. It was for the elite, either the intellectual elite or the social elite. Either way, they were expected to be well-rounded thinkers in preparation to being the leaders of the future. Smart people were expected to be interested in everything and good at everything.

Then, gradually, it became something that everyone did, because "I need it for a job." And of course, "everyone" consists mostly of basically incurious people who are not even capable of engaging on a more than superficial level with anything, let alone everything. They want some prestige and they want job training, basically, and are too dumb and boring to care about anything else. But universities don't like to admit that their students are plebs, so they try to maintain the appearance of intellectualism. But because they ARE plebs, it has to be watered down from an incubator for elite minds into just a grim, handholding slog through intro to literature or whatever.

>>7958305
The truth doesn't need to be falsifiable

>>7958214
I personally enjoyed getting the chance to take some literature classes.

>>7958294
> implying i'm a humanities major

I haven't taken a humanities course in years. I do remember however that the coursework is piss easy, and that if you're smart enough to take something that actually sounds interesting, they can actually be a lot of fun.

It also helps though that i'm an engineering major, which at my school means you get a free pass on over a year's worth of what is mandatory for everybody else.

>>7958306
>i-i-if I defend a useless non-rigorous bullshit field enough, m-maybe people will think I'm part of the WASP intellectual elite!
Sorry, it doesn't work like that. Your posturing is pretty transparent and sad, honestly.

>>7958306
Yes, but education has changed not in the way you're thinking, you're thinking too much like Stephenson trying to reject the reality of the limits of a mind and the vast volume of human knowledge (and drastically overestimating your own abilities).

People who are good at STEM are already good at everything in the sense that Grecian model educated citizens were good at everything. You can't read advanced STEM textbooks and papers without having superb language, logic and reasoning skills while in the past learning "mathematics" consited of learning arithmetic and what is today high-school level algebra at most.

Most people with decent langauge and reasoning skills are likely to already have some background in the liberal arts, but either way they are self-sustaining individuals with an autodidactic dedication to life long learning both in and outside their discipline.

Also I don't believe watered down sociology contributes to an "appearance of intellectualism" at all, who are we trying to fool exactly? Because the plebs themselves think it's a waste of money so the institutions can only be trying to fool themselves.

>>7958214
So you can become a well rounded person.
Now shut up and take your pills.

>>7958320
He's right though. It's like you idiots don't put any thought at all into your electives. You guys bitch and moan about women's studies and black history, but you're the dumbasses who decided to fulfill your requirements with that shit instead of something like economics or (insert science here) 101.

>>7958328
Many universities force you to take electives from specific departments so you can't escape the bullshit.

>>7958214
OP is mad because he got a C- in a literature class

>>7958328
>something like economics or (insert science here) 101.
Do you honestly not have any interests outside of science? You aren't interested in any aspects of literature, film, music, or history?

>>7958335
>You aren't interested in any aspects of literature, film, music, or history?
I don't need some marxist landwhale to read out crudely compiled slides based on a wikipedia article about my hobby to me.

Do you?

>>7958340
None of my humanities classes were anything like this, and I don't understand why this keeps coming up. I had plenty of both men and women professors, and there were never slides. We came in and the class had discussion based on whatever we had read, while the professor asked questions when conversation stalled.

>>7958214
That only happens if you go to a shit university.

I go to what is considered the best school in my country, and I have only taken Math, Physics, Chemistry, and Compsci stuff through my 4 years.

You can round yourself out in your free time, by reading the "classics" or masturbating or something.

>>7958332
Well, that sucks. Over here every single course (for every single department) is listed as fulfilling certain core requirements, so it's just a matter of finding one that sounds cool. Obviously not every department has a course that'll fulfill the liberal arts/humanities ones, but it's trivial to find one that isn't like pulling teeth.

>>7958335
I personally took art, journalism, and will be taking history to fulfill another elective (the econ is mandatory for us here). The comment was directed at the spergs who are whining about having to take anything that isn't in their major.

>>7958214
I'm not an American. However, Physicists had to choose a social skill course here. One, only 3 CP. It was either English or Maple (lol). I took Maple, because I never needed to visit any lecture or practice sessions to pass the test.

However I voluntarily particapated in a philosophy course "Theory of sciences" and I'm going to do this again. I think this shouldn't be optional here.

>>7958335
>Do you honestly not have any interests outside of science?
I like animu does that count?

>You aren't interested in any aspects of literature, film, music, or history?
Literature for the most part sucks unless its some autobiography or something educational. Poetry is for your secular version of "muh figurative language". Novels have the most boring introductions in history.

Film? Not sure. I have not seen anything theatre for almost 9 years now.

Music? It's only good to listen to whilst bored and wanting to waste time. Similar to why I go on /sci/.

History? This is extremely variable. I only like European history. Indian ("""native""" american), African, Middle Eastern, and Asian history are boring as fuck. The narrative for non-European history is always: "new emperor, things go GREAT! then taxes are raised to the roof, then society collapses!" or for Asian history: "we wuz mathematicians n shiet!! then the mongols (or japanese) annexed us!"

>>7958333
/thread

Just stopping by to let you all know that your employer doesn't care about your opinions on literature and philosophy. Being exposed to or well versed in these subjects doesn't necessarily make you more intelligent or a better person morally.

>>7958214
You are studying to be a integral human, not a STEM robot. What is the problem with learning literature, art, history,philosophy?

>>7958384
>The narrative for non-European history is always: "new emperor, things go GREAT! then taxes are raised to the roof, then society collapses!" or for Asian history: "we wuz mathematicians n shiet!! then the mongols (or japanese) annexed us!"

>being this ignorant

>>7958435
Just stopping by to let you know that there's more to life than what your employer thinks.

>>7958452
It is interesting that you say that since you have trouble seeing that there is more to my post than the first sentence.

>>7958237
I know a guy who took women's studies and said it was actually despite what one might think going into a course like that. On the other hand, I know a guy who took "Decorated Bodies" and the whole course ended up being about how women are 'oppressed'. It depends on the prof. I spent all my humanities credits on Economics :)

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>>7958256
Mizzou has a good cuck studies program

>>7958467
fuck: he said it was actually interesting

>>7958461
The second sentence is perfectly correct, but irrelevant to the conversation -- Nobody is making any claims contradicting it. The point is that being exposed to the subjects can possibly help you improve your thinking, and there's no reason to bitch and moan about having to learn something.

Your first sentence is just especially stupid, because a university education is not a checklist of tasks to make your future employer happy.

>>7958308
>muh absolute truth
Die

>>7958308
What the fuck, yes it does

>>7958335
I personally enjoy creative writing and reading books both fiction and non fiction. I could not imagine suffering through English courses though

>>7958262
>>7958268
>>7958271

Literally the high-school "why do we need to learn this" 'argument' that's typically applied to geometry and pre-calc.

stop being sheltered faggots.

>>7958443
stay butthurt, pajeet

>>7958476
>The second sentence is perfectly correct, but irrelevant to the conversation -- Nobody is making any claims contradicting it. The point is that being exposed to the subjects can possibly help you improve your thinking, and there's no reason to bitch and moan about having to learn something.
How is it irrelevant to the conversation when most of those who support being forced to take courses in those subjects believe it will make one more intelligent or better morally? I am against forcing students to take such courses to fulfill requirements for graduation. That doesn't mean I didn't enjoy the humanities courses I was required to take. In fact I took courses in sociology, classical philosophy, film, and foreign languages to fulfill my electives.

>Your first sentence is just especially stupid, because a university education is not a checklist of tasks to make your future employer happy.
It addressed another common idea that employers want well rounded engineers. Someone in this thread mentioned that employers don't want one trick ponies. Most of the firms I have worked for don't care about my knowledge in film and sociology.

>>7958214
Just pass the fucking course and move on.
No one learns anything from them.

>>7958384
...you like anime but think music, film, and literature are more or less wastes of time.

You fucking pleb.

>>7958237

t. NEET who got memed on

>>7958244
>implying
You learn that shit in high school anyway senpai, English in uni is just memorising spark notes with a bottle of wine

>>7958257
>implying I don't already have opinions but learning subjective shit as opposed to useful and more interesting stuff is unwanted

>>7958264
Good post, doofus

>>7958498
People who aren't going to go into STEM don't really need those desu. The point of learning them is to provide a basis for further education (and a PhD is more specialised, so that's worthless) and because people haven't decided what they want to do, so the decision to do all things is made for them. When you're in uni, you probably know what you want to do and are mature enough to choose the relevant subjects

>>7958263
yes

and hispanic studies
and asian studies

>>7958597

I'm a mathematics/English major. People who aren't going into STEM should have to take mathematic at least up through abstract algebra, analytical geometry, and maybe real analysis. Most humanities students work through Nietschean rhetoric and not logic, and most math majors can't understand rhetorical appeal. There is a huge advantage to being able to appreciate the works of both David Hilbert and Hart Crane simulaneously.

>>7958237
/thread

>>7958256
Applied cuck studies more like it kek

>>7958619

I'm: >>7958616

No, at a good university, humanities studies are largely quite fine. If you want to avoid the bullshit classes, it's easy: avoid "ENGL218: black poets in the 21st century Bronx and sheeit" and take "ENGL420: Modernist Poetry" or whatever. Really not hard. Most professors are pretty great.

I mean, yes most professors are leftists and idealists, but most of them hate new left multiculturalism and only teach the bare minimum.

>>7958514
>pajeet

>He doesn't share my ignorant opinions therefore He is a butthurt pajeet.
Learn history before trash talk like a retard.

>>7958256
Harvard has a Cuck Studies good program.

>>7958214
chemfag. took a few classes in humanities, mostly history and the prof made it so reading 100 plus pages of Frankish chronicles a week WS actually rewarding (after class lecture to contextualize it). never even had sjw classes available and I could see the poor postdoc teaching a class on ethics and moral philosophy cringe to death between the ultra conservative international students who parroted whatever they grew up with for religion and the supreme gentlemen tipping fedoras and failing to do any more than parrot one point that allowed them to say "checkmate christfags". it's not necessarily fruitless and truly a lot of the burden for the intellectual vacuity for a lot of these classes comes from people who won't put in a modicum of effort to learn or apply some semblance of logical thought to the content and/or the fools who use these for flexing their sophist muscles.

>>7958483
No it doesn't. For example, I ate cereal for breakfast yesterday. It's true and also not falsifiable by any means.

>>7958642
stay butthurt, pajeet

>>7958231
>Because nobody wants to hire a one trick pony with no social skills
That's all anyone wants to hire. Are you fucking retarded?
Your productivity as a worker is not dependent on how much of a hit you are at parties, or how well you can WOW people with your grasp of physical anthropology or general chemistry. Specialization is everything.

Are humanities students forced to learn some science?

It sure was nice being able to choose all the courses I wanted to as an undergrad, always had 8-9 math classes per year.

>>7958244
This. I know some pretty smart dudes but holy shit they cant fucking write

Its like grammar is a foreign concept

>>7958719
They're forced to take a statistics course and MAYBE some kind of course like chem 101. They spend the rest of their lives complaining about it to anyone who'll listen.

I'm always like "You want to talk fucking meme credits? Try taking Spanish III while you're trying to juggle two lab courses and a Calc III course."

Why don't people just make a fuss about being forced to pay for pointless courses? No one in academia wants to deal with angry students and you could probably get away with it

>>7958214
lel. the only retards in STEM who have to take SJW classes like that are the ones who either go to shit tier schools, or register late as fuck in the semester after all the good classes are taken.

as an engineer i took a patent law course, a drawing course, and a first course in mandarin. if you end up getting your privilege checked its your own fucking fault.

Imperial alumnus here.
In 2nd year undergrad we had to go an extension course, at least that's what I think it was.
Choice of languages, accountancy and a few humanities courses.
I picked philosophy and failed the module.
I didn't care enough about it, which was a shame as I got more into the subject after graduating.
One thing that ICL does for undergrads, just through the way labs and tutorials are arranged, is give you great prep for industry. If you can't present to an audience, or express yourself well in person or in writing, you'll fight an uphill battle most of your career.

More importantly liberal arts colleges should teach courses on the scientific method. The method, not the bullshit philosophy of science things you see from time to time.

>>7958616
>There is a huge advantage to being able to appreciate the works of both David Hilbert and Hart Crane simulaneously.

As in "you get to impress stupid people by talking about that over which you have no influence and will never have any influence."

>>7958731
The amount of science and math that non-stem students need is already nearly nonexistent.
Stem students don't make a fuss in general. They take what they have to, and then forget it immediately afterwards, if they don't need it.

>>7958725
Spanish is easy provided that you're learning castellano spanish and not the other broken as hell dialects.
t. Spaniard

>>7958750
I work in Vigo occasionally, how hard is Galician?

>>7958757
Not hard to understand actually. But the writing of Galician can sometimes appear similar to Portuguese. For example, the conjunctions.

>>7958750
Spanish is easy when you're taking it after you have no other academic obligations and you're learning it in the way in which language is meant to be learned (ie. not with a bunch of flashcards while you're waiting in the hall for your modern physics exam at the end of a 9 hour-long day).
I did absolutely adore my 2nd semester professor's dialect though. She was from Bar'the'lona.

>>7958743
>As in "you get to impress stupid people by talking about that over which you have no influence and will never have any influence."

If you do any reading or studying for bragging rights it's useless. But what's the problem in enjoying more than one field of study? Nobody here is going to be either Euler OR Shakespeare so it's better to talk about two subjects (and study one more than the other so you can gain a professional proficiency) than one.

Or you can be an autistic gag and think that your paper on blue colored 4 dimensional knots that are tied only on the left shoe on Wednesdays when it rains that you'll publish 20 years down the road is worth something. Live a little.

>>7958623
I don't see what's funny anon

He'll be the one with the 300cuck starting

>>7958703
>cut open your stomach
>test your faeces
>check your rubbish bin
>torture you for the truth
>check your purchase records

Combined, these would give a close indicator of the truth

>>7958222
Being forced to think about things you don't want to does, though.

>>7958290
I don't know what school you went to, but I graduated last year as a EE and I didn't have to learn about black people or feminism. I could have taken entirely business courses for my gen eds. Instead I took philosophy courses because they were easy as shit.

>>7958813
>But what's the problem in enjoying more than one field of study?
Nothing.
What's the problem with me wanting to go to school and get a degree in a field of study that I'm actually interested in and can make a career out of? I don't have an interest in old, dead nihilists and ivory tower intellectuals. I don't see the relevance of a Dickens novel, when I'm living in a country where the "poor" are universally fat, lazy, and prone to spending their welfare checks on frivolities like lotto tickets and filet mignon.
I do see the relevance in using modern technology, being able to build and maintain it, and understanding the principles behind it. Last I checked, I could read western philosophy on my own time, but I'm only getting one degree. It should be a good one, and I should be able to focus on that major without having to worry about meeting some circlejerk's standard for a "well rounded" education.

>Live a little.
It's a school, not a social club. I can drive myself to a bar or game shop, when I want to live a little.

>>7958905

> I don't see the relevance of a Dickens novel, when I'm living in a country where the "poor" are universally fat, lazy, and prone to spending their welfare checks on frivolities like lotto tickets and filet mignon.

Perhaps it would be useful so that you could build some actual empathy that you currently don't have, and stop spouting liquid, false Glenn Beck rhetoric without realizing it. You sound like an idiot.

>>7958911
>some actual empathy that you currently don't have, and stop spouting liquid, false Glenn Beck rhetoric without realizing it.
I have empathy. It just goes towards their fucking kids, rather than the mental midgets who drive around on their rascals and tell any cashier who'll listen about their life stories. Their kids hit 18 and are about a decade behind their peers in every given way.

You call it "Glenn Beck rhetoric," but it's actually anecdotal. I've lived that fucking life. I'm assuming you haven't.
Please, though, tell me how the stupid fucks are comparable to some 8 year-old chimney sweep who's going to die from a lung disease before he hits double digits.

>>7958936
>I have empathy. It just goes towards...

Maybe you actually just need more classes in rhetoric. You can't state something and then just follow up with the antithesis.

> but it's actually anecdotal. I've lived that fucking life. I'm assuming you haven't.

this isn't how u make an argument

> Please, though, tell me how the stupid fucks are comparable to some 8 year-old chimney sweep who's going to die from a lung disease before he hits double digits.

I could but Dickens said it a bit more elegantly than I could and you'd get a lot more out of it

>>7958945
>Maybe you actually just need more classes in rhetoric. You can't state something and then just follow up with the antithesis.
Actually being discriminating in who you fucking feel for is not the antithesis of empathy. "Oh, poor fucking millionaires. Their taxes are going up." Doesn't that sound fucking stupid to you?
You have to be blind, deaf, and dumb to go hungry in this country, and even then, there's someone who's taking care of you.
>this isn't how u make an argument
It's how I refute the implication that I give two shits about Glen Beck or his ilk. Maybe the reason people listen to the stupid fuck is because they just have to look out their windows to see that, at least in this, he's right, and the left is wrong.
>I could but Dickens said it a bit more elegantly than I could and you'd get a lot more out of it
Give me a quote. Hell, give me a book.

>>7958384
>>7958534
just a standard degenerate weeb, ignore report and move on

>>7958528

But that is the central problem. Let's even assume that we DO need to the university to teach us humanities, liberal arts, etc. and that they're not just feeding us a political agenda. Students on the whole STILL don't learn anything from them, which is a waste of their time, professors' time, and credits hours. This last point is especially problematic for those whose tuition is on a credit-by-credit basis, typically those returning to education and trying to get a technical degree to get into a better career (typically engineering and the like). It's literally a waste of money, which comes back to OP's primary line of thought (in a sense).

>>7958905
>I don't see the relevance of a Dickens novel

The pleb of plebs, holy fuck.

>>7958711
ok kid

>>7959129
I'd imagine someone who is able to stomach Dickens would at least be able to read more than half of a given statement, and respond with a complete sentence.

I go to university to get an accreditation to work in the field which I want to work in, NOT to have an education. Fuck education it's the 21st centuries biggest meme and needs to end.

>>7959169
Nice meme

Starting EE next august, had to sit through two semesters of french literature infested with feminist literature taught by two women. Grinded my fucking teeth as I hacked through cliché after cliché of female authors desperately trying to make themselves interesting. First we read about this bitch who wanted sympathy by writing about how she was torn by WW2 because her husband was send to the camp to prove women are the biggest victims of a war. Only to cuck him when he returned. Oh, and her ex-husband begged for her not to publish the book. And then we got into this whole cluster fuck of liberal feminism. Usually involves in a woman fucking the shit out of people and then talking about how it sucks to be old now. It's like my teachers are making her students live with them through their midlife crisis. Honestly can't wait to get out of this shit hole.

>>7958436
What is then, the problem with humanities faggs learning math, physics chemistry and biology? Are they too scared to admit they are not as bright as everyone told them?

>not getting your cuck phd from blacked.com
I knew that the intellecutal level on /sci/ was low but come on, it's 2016!!

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I've never had to take a humanities class.

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STEM btfo

>>7958237
This anon is right. What used to be the study of human culture is now the study of very specific subgroups of humanity and the oppression of those groups. There are professors of sociology and women's studies who are set on telling their narrative and ignoring the fundamentals of what they do. That's why a sociology class at my school has more genders than statistics.

The only humanities class I've taken that I've benefited from intellectually was a class on the economic history of the United States. But tell people that America wasn't founded because religious oppression and muh democracy and all the christians get butthurt. Tell them that the civil war wasn't started to free the slaves and all the white guilt in the sociology department starts getting very loud.

>>7958237
What fucking college do you people go to. My school is basically a technical school and we have humanities and liberal arts classes that are interesting and diverse as hell. I'm not sure what Cuck U you're going to but I'd get out of there.

>>7959945
>and the *imagined* oppression of those groups.
ftfy

>>7959901
Is that a reference to the kid who did the bomb prank?

>>7959901
STEM: Actually doing their job.
Humanities: Intentionally making everything worse just to stay employed.

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>>7958863
>liberal arts
>thinking

>>7959899
>implying shitposting classes aren't mandatory there
Dumb cunt

>>7960167
Good post pol

>>7960363
Good post #blacklivesmatter #fuckwhitepeople.

>>7960444
>if you recognise one group is unfairly treated you have to also hate other main groups

>US VS THEM PROTECT THE PURE BLOOD WHITE GENOCIDE!!!!
kys

>>7960448
No, those are hashtags from real twitter posts including those of South African politicians.

Try keeping up with current affiars more often so you understand cultural references and the racists you are defending.

>>7960209
dude, if I break a lot of windows I'm creating jobs for window makers

You can't argue with job creation. Unless you're a fucking unamerican communist cuck.

>>7960457
>No, those are hashtags from real twitter posts including those of South African politicians.

I wouldn't conflate the two though. Black lives matter is a legitimate movement that targets legitimate issues (blatant discrimination in drug law enforcement + police brutality).

It's not much different than the original civil rights movement either. People tend to consider BLM to be more radicalized than the civil rights' movement of the 60s, but that's just because history romanticizes the latter as a completely peaceful and docile movement. In reality, it was way different (which was why it was successful).

>>7958263
I've seen "urban studies" being used more often recently. It's basically the politically correct term for black studies.

>math major
>perfect 4.0
>need to take humanities courses to complete my degree
>get Bs or Cs in every single one

kill me

>>7958750
funny coming from an actual spaniard, how often do you chance upon, say, native english speakers who have mastered the spanish language?

>>7962531
Kil yourself, dude.

Everyone in this thread needs to fuck off to /his/

>>7958717
you've never worked on a team in any capacity have you. even my professor who's worked on everything from nuclear weapons to cancer treatments said he'd pass over a nobel laureate who's a cunt and cant communicate/work well on a team for someone who can.

>Do my education in europe
>Never have to deal with this bullshit.

Daily reminder that US education was never good to begin with.

>>7960359
>doesn't even know what liberal arts are
classical /sci/

>>7958214
protip: go to ASU, they will dock off a lot of humanities and the engineering program isn't shit, we have a lot of new tech because they're throwing all of the money into the engineering programs.

>>7963981
>doesn't even know what thinking is

Classical humanity major.

Anthropology graduate here.

There is nothing inherently wrong with studying humanities, or even social sciences, however as >>7959945 mentioned, it's all cultural anthropology. My college doesn't have really archeology or linguistics, or anything of the sort. It's read Malinowski, Levi-Strauss, and learn about African tribes. I'm far more interested in Economics, but didn't come to that realization until it was too late. After reading about 20th century anthropologists in Africa, I've come to the conclusion that anthropologists pretty much ruined many of these tribes by offering cigarettes and alcohol are payment for information. It's awful.

Like I said, there's nothing wrong with social sciences or anthropology itself, but the way it's structured and disseminated in schools is deeply flawed and misleading.