Colleges that prioritize the humanities side of liberal arts
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Anonymous
| DS and I originally were looking at liberal arts colleges but every single one we've toured-Williams, Pomona, Carleton, Swarthmore-has overemphasized STEM and Science research. Our Pomona tour spent more time talking about a pre-med's lab opportunities than student life; they even took us through the math and physics building, but didn't take us anywhere near the humanities buildings! We want a humanities oriented school and at this point, DS is looking towards Yale because of the lack of representation of the humanities during these tours. Anyone else going through something similar? |
Anonymous
| You're not going to find much. People these days want trade schools rather than higher education. |
Anonymous
| Or, they’re chasing the notion that their kid will be the next tech genius. lol. |
Anonymous
| St. John's College |
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| Reed |
Anonymous
| My kid is at one of those schools and has friends happily in humanities majors. Just because a school emphasizes the STEM offerings doesn't mean they're not strong for humanities. |
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| Georgetown |
Anonymous
+1 - The STEM buildings are often new and have fancy labs and expensive equipment that the schools want to show off. A building for English lectures looks like a building with classrooms. But that doesn't mean they don't recruit and support excellent faculty. Carleton's president is an English prof and teaches a course every year (or two?). Many of these schools have art collections. You can always ask to speak to a student in "x" department - pretty sure all schools have some sort of ambassador program for exactly this reason. |
Anonymous
| PP - should say it doesn't mean they don't recruit and support excellent humanities faculty. |
Anonymous
Weird answer. A school best known for its foreign service, business, and health sciences offerings. |
Anonymous
Highly recommend. A lot of the WASP colleges have essentially just become economics and math schools for pre-consulting students. The liberal arts is lost on many of those colleges. Look towards dedicated, intense colleges. |
Anonymous
Agreed. Econ is the big rave at all of these schools. |
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Look into Kenyon, particularly for its Integrated Program in Humane Studies.
https://www.kenyon.edu/academics/departments-and-majors/integrated-program-in-humane-studies/ |
Anonymous
| It's not either/or. There are many STEM types that have a deep and abiding interest in the humanities. From Einstein to Carl Sagan to Stephen Hawking and on and on. There's an old expression - God speaks in two languages: music and mathematics. A good university community will listen to both. A college that only pays attention to humanities is functionally deaf in one ear. But if that's their thing, maybe look into Bennington College. Or Hampshire College. |
Anonymous
+1 |