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<blockquote data-quote="takethepoints" data-source="post: 314831" data-attributes="member: 265"><p>Yep. One of the things Tech could do is make the liberal arts majors more visible. There is little recognition of the liberal arts at Tech and there is no question at all that they are treated as an afterthought by the school itself.</p><p></p><p>This makes absolutely no sense at all. I'm a political scientist by trade (retired, but still in there plugging, off and on). If there was ever a time when quantitative methods are taking the lead in the liberal arts it's <em>right now</em>. Shoot, even the English programs are embracing things like content analysis and machine learning. These kinds of things are not, you know, unknown at Tech. Indeed, Tech should be in the forefront on this kind of thing as well as other sophistaciated qualitative techniques in the liberal arts. If MIT can do it - they have a world renowned liberal arts program - Tech can do it. Indeed, from what people there tell me, they <em>are</em> doing it but nobody much is paying attention.</p><p></p><p>So, yes, we could do more to let interested young people know that they can come to Tech, study English (i.e. Literature, Media, and Communications), and get a kick-rear degree in the subject that leads to all kinds of opportunities after college. More liberal arts majors would help, but it isn't really necessary; we just need to make the invisible visible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takethepoints, post: 314831, member: 265"] Yep. One of the things Tech could do is make the liberal arts majors more visible. There is little recognition of the liberal arts at Tech and there is no question at all that they are treated as an afterthought by the school itself. This makes absolutely no sense at all. I'm a political scientist by trade (retired, but still in there plugging, off and on). If there was ever a time when quantitative methods are taking the lead in the liberal arts it's [I]right now[/I]. Shoot, even the English programs are embracing things like content analysis and machine learning. These kinds of things are not, you know, unknown at Tech. Indeed, Tech should be in the forefront on this kind of thing as well as other sophistaciated qualitative techniques in the liberal arts. If MIT can do it - they have a world renowned liberal arts program - Tech can do it. Indeed, from what people there tell me, they [I]are[/I] doing it but nobody much is paying attention. So, yes, we could do more to let interested young people know that they can come to Tech, study English (i.e. Literature, Media, and Communications), and get a kick-rear degree in the subject that leads to all kinds of opportunities after college. More liberal arts majors would help, but it isn't really necessary; we just need to make the invisible visible. [/QUOTE]
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