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The Importance of Teaching Humanities in Higher Education Institutions: in Defense of Liberal Arts Education

机译：高校教学中人文教育的重要性：捍卫人文教育

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The humanities have always been under attack in the higher education of the United States of America. Corporate culture of the university requires the most money distributed towards research and specialization, while making employability of the graduates the main goal of education. With two thirds of all majors being in business and finance, humanities don’t seem to play a big role in higher education overall. This work makes an attempt in defense of liberal arts education to our students, and the importance of teaching the subjects like English, Literature and Philosophy independent of a student’s major concentration. Even in our age of specialized and corporatized education, these courses are of great importance. These subjects can help young people find their way in this confusing web of life weaved out of pressure, expectations, failures, problems, fears. What other fields of study can teach them about history of cultures and languages, people who made history; who made contribution to the world in art, literature and science; what young people can learn from them. But most importantly, how to raise questions about life in general and search for answers, how to find meaning, how to know what’s important to them. In general, teaching them how to think. I would like to take different approaches in looking at teaching humanities to college students in this country, drawing from my own experiences in both Russia and US, my graduate courses at UVM, as well as works of those in the academia concerned with the same matter. I will look at how corporate culture of the university and research-driven education dictate the curricula in colleges and universities; how multiculturalism and political correctness that saturated higher education these days can influence the way humanities are presented, and explore the influence of humanities in our students’ making meaning of their lives.
机译：人文学科在美利坚合众国的高等教育中一直受到攻击。大学的企业文化要求将最多的钱用于研究和专业化，同时使毕业生的就业能力成为教育的主要目标。在所有专业中，有三分之二的专业是商业和金融业，因此人文学科似乎在整个高等教育中并未发挥重要作用。这项工作试图为我们的学生辩护文科教育，并且在独立于学生的主要注意力的情况下教授英语，文学和哲学等科目的重要性。即使在我们的专业化和公司化教育时代，这些课程也非常重要。这些主题可以帮助年轻人在因压力，期望，失败，问题，恐惧而编织的混乱生活中找到自己的出路。还有哪些其他研究领域可以教给他们关于文化和语言的历史，创造历史的人；在艺术，文学和科学方面为世界做出了贡献；年轻人可以从中学到什么。但最重要的是，如何提出关于生活的一般问题和寻找答案，如何找到意义，如何知道对他们而言重要的东西。通常，教他们如何思考。我想采用不同的方法，根据我在俄罗斯和美国的经验，我在UVM的研究生课程以及与该问题相关的学术界人士的工作，为该国的大学生教授人文科学。 。我将研究大学的企业文化和研究驱动型教育如何决定大学的课程；如今饱和的高等教育如何多元文化和政治正确性如何影响人文学科的表现方式，并探讨人文学科对我们学生生活意义的影响。

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