Recently, the Los Angeles Times did a story about a young woman who graduated from CalTech with a degree in Humanities. She was the only one in her class who majored in Humanities without a science or engineering major as well. The reporter notes that the recent graduate started as a molecular biology major, and then changed her major to math, then decided she preferred studying economics and history. Fortunately, CalTech’s course offerings were able to accommodate her changing academic interests.
There used to be a story floating around about a student who majored in English at MIT. In fact, there is no English major available at MIT today, but students in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences can major in Linguistics, Literature, Writing and Humanistic Studies, and 17 other non-“hard” science disciplines.
