{"id":6443,"date":"2017-03-07T17:24:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T17:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6443"},"modified":"2017-03-07T17:24:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T17:24:32","slug":"enrolments-in-the-humanities-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6443","title":{"rendered":"Enrolments in the Humanities in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<figure style=\"width: 920px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/thumbnail.png\" width=\"920\" height=\"420\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Change in Humanities<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Globe and Mail had a balanced article on Friday, March 3rd by Simona Chiose on how, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/as-students-move-away-from-humanities-programs-universities-adapt\/article34207300\/\">As students move away from the humanities, universities adapt<\/a>. This is actually an older trend. In the 1990s I was involved in developing new programs in <a href=\"http:\/\/csmm.humanities.mcmaster.ca\/\">Multimedia and Communications for McMaster<\/a>. Now the focus seems more on adding applied minors and skills\u00a0to programs, which strikes me as a good idea.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In response to decreasing enrolment in arts programs, schools are trying new approaches, such as adding arts courses to commerce degrees<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article ends by pointing out that the humanities and social sciences provide &#8220;more career stability&#8221; than the &#8220;<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epri.ca\/uottawa-tax-linkage-project\">boom and bust cycles experienced by their colleagues in engineering or computer science<\/a>&#8221; (see the linked University of Ottawa report.) Humanities students earn less, but their earnings rise steadily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Globe and Mail had a balanced article on Friday, March 3rd by Simona Chiose on how, As students move away from the humanities, universities adapt. This is actually an older trend. In the 1990s I was involved in developing new programs in Multimedia and Communications for McMaster. Now the focus seems more on adding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6443\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Enrolments in the Humanities in Canada<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6446,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6443\/revisions\/6446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}