I don't hate the humanities on an individual basis. I like art history, musicology, literary criticism, philosophy, film studies. What I hate are THE HUMANITIES as a giant vaguification of all of this. "What is means to be human." "The human condition." "The human endeavor." Surely nobody is convinced by this kind of verbiage. Once you lump those fields into one catchall phrase all the specificity disappears.
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A colleague laments that the critical thinking module will be absent from the CORE curriculum. My response should be that every college course should be about "critical thinking."
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