Anonymous
Post 02/12/2025 01:38     Subject: Colleges that prioritize the humanities side of liberal arts
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My DC attends a university known for STEM, especially engineering. However, she is a humanities major and receiving what I consider a fabulous education. The liberal arts colleges in many "tech" schools are often excellent and have a wide breadth of majors and class choices, as opposed to small schools that have much narrower offerings. I attended a SLAC myself and the difference between the opportunities her school has offered and my own experience is night and day. I highly recommend a larger university for liberal arts majors.

So you think liberal arts colleges are useless?


You are swimming against the consensus here on DCUM. Most believe that an elite SLAC provides a better undergraduate experience.


What do you mean by elite SLAC?
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2025 01:30     Subject: Colleges that prioritize the humanities side of liberal arts
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My DC attends a university known for STEM, especially engineering. However, she is a humanities major and receiving what I consider a fabulous education. The liberal arts colleges in many "tech" schools are often excellent and have a wide breadth of majors and class choices, as opposed to small schools that have much narrower offerings. I attended a SLAC myself and the difference between the opportunities her school has offered and my own experience is night and day. I highly recommend a larger university for liberal arts majors.

So you think liberal arts colleges are useless?


You are swimming against the consensus here on DCUM. Most believe that an elite SLAC provides a better undergraduate experience.

I’m not making any argument at all, I was asking a comprehension question.
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2025 01:14     Subject: Colleges that prioritize the humanities side of liberal arts
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My DC attends a university known for STEM, especially engineering. However, she is a humanities major and receiving what I consider a fabulous education. The liberal arts colleges in many "tech" schools are often excellent and have a wide breadth of majors and class choices, as opposed to small schools that have much narrower offerings. I attended a SLAC myself and the difference between the opportunities her school has offered and my own experience is night and day. I highly recommend a larger university for liberal arts majors.

So you think liberal arts colleges are useless?


Yes
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2025 01:13     Subject: Colleges that prioritize the humanities side of liberal arts
Also - Carleton, Colgate, Haverford
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2025 00:36     Subject: Colleges that prioritize the humanities side of liberal arts
Macalester
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2025 00:26     Subject: Colleges that prioritize the humanities side of liberal arts
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My DC attends a university known for STEM, especially engineering. However, she is a humanities major and receiving what I consider a fabulous education. The liberal arts colleges in many "tech" schools are often excellent and have a wide breadth of majors and class choices, as opposed to small schools that have much narrower offerings. I attended a SLAC myself and the difference between the opportunities her school has offered and my own experience is night and day. I highly recommend a larger university for liberal arts majors.

So you think liberal arts colleges are useless?


You are swimming against the consensus here on DCUM. Most believe that an elite SLAC provides a better undergraduate experience.
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2025 00:12     Subject: Colleges that prioritize the humanities side of liberal arts
Anonymous wrote:My DC attends a university known for STEM, especially engineering. However, she is a humanities major and receiving what I consider a fabulous education. The liberal arts colleges in many "tech" schools are often excellent and have a wide breadth of majors and class choices, as opposed to small schools that have much narrower offerings. I attended a SLAC myself and the difference between the opportunities her school has offered and my own experience is night and day. I highly recommend a larger university for liberal arts majors.

So you think liberal arts colleges are useless?
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2025 22:50     Subject: Colleges that prioritize the humanities side of liberal arts
My DC attends a university known for STEM, especially engineering. However, she is a humanities major and receiving what I consider a fabulous education. The liberal arts colleges in many "tech" schools are often excellent and have a wide breadth of majors and class choices, as opposed to small schools that have much narrower offerings. I attended a SLAC myself and the difference between the opportunities her school has offered and my own experience is night and day. I highly recommend a larger university for liberal arts majors.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2025 22:46     Subject: Colleges that prioritize the humanities side of liberal arts
If your son simply might want to choose a maximum intensity of humanities studies, then he could do this at an LAC with an open curriculum, such as Amherst or Hamilton. At schools of this type he could take all, or nearly all, of his classes in humanities fields.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2025 21:59     Subject: Re:Colleges that prioritize the humanities side of liberal arts
Universities are where you go for the humanities. Lacs have moved toward the hard sciences, math, and social sciences.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2025 21:52     Subject: Colleges that prioritize the humanities side of liberal arts
Univ of Chicago’s required core curriculum is intense and reminds me of philosophy classes I took in college. In one semester the first year, our daughter read Aristotle, Plato, St. Augustine, Durkheim, Arendt, and Freud. I’m sure I’ve forgotten many. https://college.uchicago.edu/academics/core-curriculum
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2025 21:48     Subject: Re:Colleges that prioritize the humanities side of liberal arts
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You're frustrated with Pomona, because they didn't take you into a humanities seminar? I don't have any connection with it, but it certainly invests heavily in the humanities: Just from one google search https://www.pomona.edu/administration/humanities-studio
https://www.pomona.edu/museum/about
https://colleges.claremont.edu/thehive/
https://www.pomona.edu/arts


Their English department also invests heavily in knifing each other.

I’m sure the students are fine to be in a rich department and professors with too much time on their hands.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2025 21:41     Subject: Re:Colleges that prioritize the humanities side of liberal arts
Anonymous wrote:You're frustrated with Pomona, because they didn't take you into a humanities seminar? I don't have any connection with it, but it certainly invests heavily in the humanities: Just from one google search https://www.pomona.edu/administration/humanities-studio
https://www.pomona.edu/museum/about
https://colleges.claremont.edu/thehive/
https://www.pomona.edu/arts


Their English department also invests heavily in knifing each other.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2025 21:32     Subject: Colleges that prioritize the humanities side of liberal arts
Anonymous wrote:Be very careful when looking at smaller schools for the humanities. We learned the hard way. For majors such as history, where there is no set of required core courses in the major, the classes offered depend solely on the interest of the faculty. So if the department is small, odds are there will not be a lot of classes of interest until your student's interests match up really well with one or two of the professors'.

Never heard of this in any decent lac
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2025 21:21     Subject: Re:Colleges that prioritize the humanities side of liberal arts
Also, Vassar, Wesleyan, Bard…