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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The world does not need more history, philosophy, literature, religious studies students. Students who are going into these fields have not been advised properly.

[b]Everyone is learning humanities. Including STEM students. Look at their course work, more than 60% in humanities. [/b]

You dont need a major in history. Who would need history majors? History teachers/professors, yes. That is a tiny portion of the population. The numbers graduating in that major are multiples of those actually needed.

How do we know? The market is a good mechanism for what skills are valuable. If you paid attention in humanities courses, you would have learned about it.

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Who do you think is going to teach them if you lay off the professors? The vast, vast majority of students ANY humanities professor at a non-elite, undergraduate college teaches are not majors. [b]They are students who are going to need to be able to write and speak and do research in their careers. Yeah, STEM students too.[/b] 
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So true.  My Chemistry/Chinese double major kid found out the Asian history class involves a whole different level of reading and writing (much more extensive) than his Chemistry classes.
I truly believe it will serve him well later in life.
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UMD requires essentially a minor for CS majors. Kind of hoping he takes advantage of one of the non-technical minors that require fewer prerequisites like philosophy or linguistics rather than math or robotics. 
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