I'll keep the intro short. Everything and everyone has a stereotype attached to them, we have to look past the status quo and focus on the individual if we don't want to miss the boat. Ideologies comes and go and so do our presumptions on people. My goal today is to change your mindset to show you how much value hiring an Humanities major can bring to your team.
B- is math is not always > an A in english
Who ever said getting an B- in a hard science is better than getting an A in humanities has no idea what it takes to get an A in an upper level class. The critic most likely had to take some humanities GE class and hated it. Yeah I hated mine too, but the same argument could be made for the GE math requirement. GE's only get your feet wet and a whole lot of information that is not really applicable to life but as we transcend into the upper level classes, this is where the real value comes from. Don't get me wrong doing calculus is hard, i've taken the class, but with a math class you practice problems going into a test. Imagine having you whole grade based off of three essay questions. Professors in humanities don't hold your hand and do practice problems, but rather they focus on unlocking the mind to challenge and question the social norms and require you to produce. In math you have a final answer, it is a safety net. There is always a right answer and with that comes the warm blanket of reassurance from working around the problem until it is solved. Once you come off conquerer you move onto the next problem to "plug and chug" you way through life. Crunching numbers does give a sense of accomplishment and a lot of good comes out of it, but it is a very conservative approach. For Humanities there is passion because there is no such thing as a 100% right answer in writing, but only a defendable one. The best trait that comes from writing is that it is impossible to BS your way through anything in humanities. Sure, there is an occasional paper that can be busted out on a whim but you can't tell me that writing for upper level class can be a cake walk.
Each Professor has a different grading style; Versatility
Now there is a fine line behind being a brown nosing snob and playing the field to your advantage. The beginning stages of listening to the voice of the customer starts but changing writing styles to the professor. Think of a paper like a product; it has information( features) that add benefits to the consumer(those who read it). Each Professor has a different PHD from each other; for example I have had professors who's focus was on urbanism, cinematography, African American studies, satire (yeah you can get a PHD in that) and even early American Christian history for women. All PHD means is that they are as segmented as it gets on their studies and know a certain topic very, very, very well. It is a classic joke that the first paper is always failed because nobody knows the teacher's writing style, but as the semester goes on the students are able to adjust their writing style so that they can get the A. It doesn't cut it being a stubborn writer. University level writing skills require versatilely and the ability to listen to the consumers (professors) effectively to have them "buy into your idea".
Humanities majors know how to research and apply segmentation,
Primary and secondary research are vital resources for any humanities major, we live and die off of that. No student can make it far without sticking his or her nose into books and painfully collect information. I call this "panning for gold," A person who is looking for a place to prospect has to find a plot of land (subject matter) and a lot of times has to move from spot to spot until they find the ideal spot. After that they have to sift through rocks, mud, water, fish and who knows what in order to find those golden flakes, and an occasional nugget. The golden flakes are added up over time and as they are placed together real value comes out. I would say that a good 95% of all research doesn't not get into any paper. For each and every paper there is a vernacular that has to not only be mastered but must be used as a tool to create new ideas to cater to an audience. Each and every paper calls for the student to do hours of archive building. For example one possible subject matter for a paper would be how Hurricane Katrina hurricane changed an aspect of New Orleans. Sounds easy right? For that class I wrote about Hurricane Katrina was exploited by Lil Wayne in his album Tha Cater III. Sounds cool right? Well talking about a rapper or a music an album wont last 10 pages. This is where I had to collect mountains of data about musical theory in general, then for specifically New Orleans and even then for a target group the lower-class African American's musical history in New Orleans... just for my intro paragraph. It is a classic segmentation exercise that is commonly used in business.
Now go hire a humanities major.
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