what's anyone going to do with a liberal arts degree??? what anyone going to do with a humanities degree?

Raul Tllo: It used to be that colleges only had liberal arts degrees. One would go to an apprenticeship program if they wanted job training. College was for scholastic academia, not for everyday Joes. Today, colleges are trying to be DeVry, or Triangle Tech instead of Harvard, or Wesleyan. Vo-Tech university movements are a race to the bottom. Colleges are not supposed to be job training.

Nia Monopoli: Depends on the situation. For instance I had a friend who did not know what to major in so she chose liberal arts. It is by far the easiest in my book to get your Associates. After completion of the courses she finally knew what she wanted to do. She double majored in business administration (took 4 perquisites classes) and decided to leave for the military. She went in as an E-3 rating for the United States Air-force and and completed her 4 year contract. Now she is a Human Resource Representative for the Disneyland Resort in Florida. Hence, with out her liber! al arts degree she would not be marketable for the administration department versus a regular general education completion in the military field....Show more

Gordon Showes: With a degree in the liberal arts or humanities, you would be better equipped to go about answering this question.Honestly, every discipline is simply an approach to the same sorts of problems. Whether you're creating thought experiments in philosophy or experiments on thought in psychology, you're always trying to push the boundaries of human knowledge. Now, on a more realistic note... Society as a whole is starting to push people towards the life sciences and engineering. As far as most college websites are concerned, you aren't getting an education unless you're graduating and making 40-60k right after your bachelor's degree. Don't let this thought process deceive you, though. A college degree is what you make of it. If you major in Physics but have no passion for it, then what's your degree wor! th? It's worthless knowledge signified by a piece of paper, an! d you'll never have any motivation or passion to actually do anything with it.I guess my point is, liberal arts can never die, nor can the humanities. There's a reason most colleges have gen ed requirements - while these disciplines can't die, they can easily be forgotten. We need historians, philosophers, mathematicians and literary analysts. It allows humans to progress, and provides our engineers and scientists and (hypothetically) politicians with problems that can be solved, and the ideas for innovation that will solve them.Again, it's all about what you do with the degrees themselves. It's fairly easy to fake your way through some majors... But if you look for challenges, and try to push your education, it will happen. You'll walk out of college with a formidable knowledge, and a brand new way of thinking.You'll also probably have loads of debt, few job offers, and carpal tunnel from typing up 40 page essays. Ah, well. Academia. ...Show more

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