A Guide To Choosing a Humanities Professor
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Why Does It Matter? I am currently a tenured full professor of philosophy and religious studies at Arizona State University where I have been teaching for 25 years. During that time, I have seen many humanities professors who claim to be wise but who cannot even teach their students what is good. They lie to these students and say that their classes and degrees will help them get a job better than other, much more useful degrees. I wrote this Guide to help you choose a professor. Choose wisely. If you’re planning to study philosophy, religion, literature, or history, you’ll be taking humanities classes. Even if you don’t major in these fields, you’ll still need to take general education courses in the humanities to graduate. A good humanities class should…