“What we need as a society right now is more Renaissance people. More people who are able to think through multiple discourses. It's not that the humanities just give you soft skills. It's that the knowledge and resources of the humanities are important for a range of careers (…)”
@rbtownsend.bsky.social"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
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"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts