Tuesday, September 26, 2017

How to save the humanities? Make them a requirement toward a business degree - John Marcus, Hechinger Rep0rt

Now, after four years of planning, a new program at McMaster’s DeGroote School of Business proposes to make this connection more concrete. It’s a business major aimed at turning out what it says will be future corporate leaders, for which students also are required to take philosophy, language, culture and other humanities courses toward an eventual degree in business. “We did the research about what employers are looking for and we kept coming back to the same things: critical thinking, communication, cultural perspective,” said Emad Mohammad, the director of the new program, called Integrated Business and Humanities. “But the School of Business couldn’t teach these skills. We didn’t have the in-house expertise to teach philosophy and history and English.” http://hechingerreport.org/how-to-save-the-humanities-make-them-a-requirement-toward-a-business-degree/