MIT ‘Humanities’

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the closest thing to humanities that MIT is known for is philosophy, but their philosophy program emphasizes logic, and ties in to computer science.

They have an entire Humanities college, as do most/all "tech" schools:

https://shass.mit.edu/undergraduate/majors

Course 21 is humanities. And Course 21 has many joint degree offerings (humanities + math/science/eng).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Econ is not a humanities major.

Econ is considered humanities at MIT for the purpose of fulfilling graduation requirements, although it's basically math.

Not true. It's considered a social science.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Econ is not a humanities major.

Econ is considered humanities at MIT for the purpose of fulfilling graduation requirements, although it's basically math.

Not true. It's considered a social science.

Normally it’s a social science. The type of Econ taught at MIT is very math heavy but it still counts toward “humanities” distribution requirements and is consequently pretty popular — MIT student strongly prefer to get their non-hard science classes with as much math as possible.

[Anonymous]

You can see the undergrad degrees awrded here (SB is he undergrad degree -- Bachelor of Science):

https://registrar.mit.edu/stats-reports/degrees-awarded

So let's not pretend there are a lot of traditional humanities students there. One humanities major and one philosophy major -- not ideal if that is what you really want to study.

[Anonymous]

FWIW I have heard that the rare humanities students there do get a lot of individual attention.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Econ is not a humanities major.

Econ is considered humanities at MIT for the purpose of fulfilling graduation requirements, although it's basically math.

Not true. It's considered a social science.

Normally it’s a social science. The type of Econ taught at MIT is very math heavy but it still counts toward “humanities” distribution requirements and is consequently pretty popular — MIT student strongly prefer to get their non-hard science classes with as much math as possible.

Not quite right.

While several DCUM posters claim that economics is one of the "humanities", MIT is QUITE CLEAR that the distribution requirements of which you speak include both Humanities AND Social Sciences. HASS requirements stands for Humanities and Social Sciences. Economics is a social science, even at MIT. HASS requirements at MIT include both humanities and social sciences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can see the undergrad degrees awrded here (SB is he undergrad degree -- Bachelor of Science):

https://registrar.mit.edu/stats-reports/degrees-awarded

So let's not pretend there are a lot of traditional humanities students there. One humanities major and one philosophy major -- not ideal if that is what you really want to study.

Ours doubled in both math and philosophy and it was ideal, for him at least. Philosophy at MIT is math heavy and steeped in logic. No one is saying that there are "a lot of traditional humanities students there," rather that the humanities and social sciences at MIT are very strong.

[Anonymous]

I think it has a strong linguistics dept