@Jolly said in Most regretted and least regretted college majors:
Classic liberal arts education here.
Over 80 hours science courses, 16 hours math & physics, but ...Fortunate enough to have 12 hours English & Literature, 12 hours theology and basic philosophy, along with a smattering of other odds and ends.
A good bit of those non-STEM courses are what makes adaptable adults. And many of them were core curriculum classes. I think core curriculum classes should be mandatory at any university.
https://capitalpost.uk/education/universities/us-humanities-face-existential-crisis-amid-university-cuts.html
In a powerful act of protest, students at Montclair State University in New Jersey recently gathered for a sombre mock funeral outside their college of humanities and social sciences. Carrying flowers, they stood before a tombstone inscribed with the names of 15 departments, including English, history, and sociology, symbolising what they see as the death of these disciplines at the hands of university administrators.
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At its core, the conflict reveals a fundamental disagreement about the purpose of a university education. On one side, increasingly corporatised administrations favour market-driven metrics, enrolment figures, and job-placement rates. On the other, defenders of the humanities argue their value to critical thought, ethical reasoning, and democratic society cannot be quantified.
"The humanities simply don't fit a corporate model because they are just not monetizable in the same way," explained Adam Rzepka, an English professor at Montclair State.
