Advantages of being a Humanities Student : )

Independent learning skills: The ability to learn, and the ability to recognize opportunities to learn. Research skills: The ability to find information and ideas, and the ability to critically distinguish between various sources of ideas. Writing skills: The ability to structure your thoughts coherently and express yourself in ways that are appropriate to the occasion. Speaking skills: The ability to confidently and clearly express your ideas. The ability to convince someone of your arguments and persuade them of your point of view. Critical thinking skills: The ability to tell better ideas from worse, the ability to test ideas by subjecting them to relevant criteria. "Electracy" skills: The ability to read, navigate, and create the digital environment. (the term "electracy" comes from Gregory Ulmer). Problem-solving skills: The ability to understand and express a problem that needs to be solved, and the knowledge of various methods of analysis that might be relevant to the problem. Question formulation skills: The ability to recognize that all knowledge is really the answer to a question, and that truly understanding something means understanding the questions that are asked, and being able to refine those questions to produce better knowledge. Interdisciplinary skills: The ability to work at the borders of traditional forms of knowledge, using the resources from more than one area to help define a problem or ask a question, and suggest approaches to addressing the problem or question. Global understanding and cultural sensitivity: The ability to appreciate cultures and religious traditions outside of your own. Historical understanding: The ability to see how and why things came to be as they are, and how they might be different. Aesthetic understanding: The ability to recognize and produce visual, narrative, and musical structure, order, and appeal. Perspectival understanding: The ability to understand how other people or groups think, and to value difference. Adaptability: The ability to apply knowledge and skills to a wide variety of contexts. Time and resource management skills: The ability to work under pressure and maximize resources to produce a desired outcome. Linguistic skills: The ability to operate in more than one language.  Tact: No, not the ability to be discreet, but rather, the ability to know the right thing to do and to say at the right time. Aristotle called it "phronesis".