Christina Cannon
|
August 21, 2024
Aren't all majors created equal? Humanities courses have struggled to find students for years, and the stigma we place upon them could be the issue. When I arrived at Southern Adventist University as a history major the reactions I received from other students about my field of study shocked me. Pre-med students often commented “Wow, all that reading!? I could never survive in that major.” This puzzled me because they had to regularly stay up all night to memorize chemical mechanisms, something I cataloged as objectively “harder.” But even if extensive reading is considered “hard,” that doesn’t correlate to respect for the humanities at Adventist institutions.