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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a professional historian and what bothers me isn't so much the number of majors, it's that the number of faculty and course offerings are so dependent on majors. Wouldn't it be GREAT if students focused on business, economics, engineering, comp sci, etc also had a strong grounding in history? Wouldn't it be awesome if it were part of the tool kit for future leaders?

I would love to see history integrated across the curriculum. But I guess I AM describing liberal arts education. [/quote]

Just curious…do you believe history majors should also have a strong grounding in business, engineering, economics and CS?[/quote]

Yeah, I believe people should take courses from across the curriculum. I definitely think it's important to have some understanding of math, science, and social science. But I don't have a proposed core curriculum of *specific* courses; distributional requirements vary a lot at different liberal arts colleges, with different degrees of student choice.  [/quote]

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