{"id":125984,"date":"2021-10-25T13:01:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T11:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/?p=125984"},"modified":"2021-10-25T13:42:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T11:42:42","slug":"the-humanities-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/the-humanities-of-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"The Humanities of the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

W<\/span>ith the top-down reduction of places in the Humanities now looming once again<\/a>, many of my colleagues are fighting off this threat as if their professional lives depended on it. As a Professor, a former Head of ENGEROM, and a staunch defender of the Humanities, I would like to offer another perspective.<\/p>\n

The cuts to student places with which HUM is being threatened are inevitable one way or another.\u00a0 Enrolments to our smaller degrees are dropping fast for reasons independent of the current government\u2019s cruel will to have this happen.\u00a0 Across the world, young people are looking for forms of education that will gain them meaningful roles in the struggle for environmental sustainability, social justice, and technical innovation at a global level.\u00a0 This is just as it should be.<\/p>\n

It is up to those in charge to build a university in which subjects can be studied by students in the combinations they need.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The challenge it leaves us with is not how to save five year degrees in Ancient Greek,\u00a0 Portuguese, or Classical Archeology.\u00a0 Let them cut those places artificially before it happens organically.\u00a0 I have no doubt that such degrees should be amalgamated, diversified, or adapted.\u00a0 The more important question this leaves for us Humanists is how to build a university where students of all kinds can still learn Ancient Greek, Portuguese, and Classical Archeology.\u00a0 For we need more desperately than ever a university where subjects like these are on offer to all University of Copenhagen (UCPH) students as a part of their education.<\/p>\n

In many places in the world degrees in French or Latin have already been replaced by degrees in Creative Writing or Media Studies or Environmental Humanities. \u00a0But this is not the only, or the best, way to ensure students are trained to address new problems the twenty-first century is throwing at us.\u00a0 This new world still needs specialists.\u00a0 But these specialists will be biologists who read French and digital humanists who read Latin.<\/p>\n

We need more urgently than ever environmental engineers who can write persuasively and doctors who speak Arabic. This can happen in part through minors or concentrations. UCPH students have some chance to take some electives, but far fewer than their contemporaries around the world.\u00a0 It is almost impossible to learn a language at UCPH unless one takes a full degree in that language.\u00a0 If one is studying to be a teacher, almost all one\u2019s choices are exhausted. And the ironclad curricula in most departments at UCPH means that there are very few ways to meet the requirements of a degree other than through courses in one\u2019s department.\u00a0 This needs to change if the humanities is to survive the next millennium.<\/p>\n

Cutting our small degrees now may feel like a loss.\u00a0 But it may also free us up as researchers, managers, and heads of study up to build graduate degrees, research groups, concentrations, electives, and alliances truer than the ones with which we are currently defending \u2013 and closer to what tomorrow\u2019s students really want.<\/p>\n

In its boldest form, the humanities of the future is not a dispensable island of tiny and labor intensive programs, but a part of the mainland upon which all good education must be built. It is not up to the government or to university management to say what these combinations of skills might be \u2013 it is up to you, the new generations of students. It is up to those in charge to build a university in which subjects can be studied by students in the combinations they need. This means making specialist skills available regardless of whether or not one takes a five-year degree in them.\u00a0 It means making more specialist Master\u2019s Degrees open to students from other disciplinary backgrounds, and creating certificates in and 3 year degrees in smaller subjects.<\/p>\n

Most of all it means that research must continue in specialist areas of the humanities, regardless of whether students inhabit them as exclusive area of interests.
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As a Professor, a former Head of ENGEROM, and a staunch defender of the Humanities, I would like to offer another perspective.<\/p>\n<p>The cuts to student places with which HUM is being threatened are inevitable one way or another.\u00a0 Enrolments to our smaller degrees are dropping fast for reasons independent of the current government\u2019s cruel will to have this happen.\u00a0 Across the world, young people are looking for forms of education that will gain them meaningful roles in the struggle for environmental sustainability, social justice, and technical innovation at a global level.\u00a0 This is just as it should be.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is up to those in charge to build a university in which subjects can be studied by students in the combinations they need.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The challenge it leaves us with is not how to save five year degrees in Ancient Greek,\u00a0 Portuguese, or Classical Archeology.\u00a0 Let them cut those places artificially before it happens organically.\u00a0 I have no doubt that such degrees should be amalgamated, diversified, or adapted.\u00a0 The more important question this leaves for us Humanists is how to build a university where students of all kinds can still learn Ancient Greek, Portuguese, and Classical Archeology.\u00a0 For we need more desperately than ever a university where subjects like these are on offer to all University of Copenhagen (UCPH) students as a part of their education.<\/p>\n<p>In many places in the world degrees in French or Latin have already been replaced by degrees in Creative Writing or Media Studies or Environmental Humanities. \u00a0But this is not the only, or the best, way to ensure students are trained to address new problems the twenty-first century is throwing at us.\u00a0 This new world still needs specialists.\u00a0 But these specialists will be biologists who read French and digital humanists who read Latin.<\/p>\n<p>We need more urgently than ever environmental engineers who can write persuasively and doctors who speak Arabic. This can happen in part through minors or concentrations. UCPH students have some chance to take some electives, but far fewer than their contemporaries around the world.\u00a0 It is almost impossible to learn a language at UCPH unless one takes a full degree in that language.\u00a0 If one is studying to be a teacher, almost all one\u2019s choices are exhausted. And the ironclad curricula in most departments at UCPH means that there are very few ways to meet the requirements of a degree other than through courses in one\u2019s department.\u00a0 This needs to change if the humanities is to survive the next millennium.<\/p>\n<p>Cutting our small degrees now may feel like a loss.\u00a0 But it may also free us up as researchers, managers, and heads of study up to build graduate degrees, research groups, concentrations, electives, and alliances truer than the ones with which we are currently defending \u2013 and closer to what tomorrow\u2019s students really want.<\/p>\n<p>In its boldest form, the humanities of the future is not a dispensable island of tiny and labor intensive programs, but a part of the mainland upon which all good education must be built. It is not up to the government or to university management to say what these combinations of skills might be \u2013 it is up to you, the new generations of students. It is up to those in charge to build a university in which subjects can be studied by students in the combinations they need. This means making specialist skills available regardless of whether or not one takes a five-year degree in them.\u00a0 It means making more specialist Master\u2019s Degrees open to students from other disciplinary backgrounds, and creating certificates in and 3 year degrees in smaller subjects.<\/p>\n<p>Most of all it means that research must continue in specialist areas of the humanities, regardless of whether students inhabit them as exclusive area of interests.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Newsletter","lang_select":"en","identifier":"Newsletter","headline":"Get an email with our top stories","button_text":"Sign up here","class":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":false,"references":false,"category":false,"theme":false,"number_of_posts":"4","style":"default"}],"expression":{"term_id":16,"name":"Opinion","slug":"opinion","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":2048,"filter":"raw"},"enable_comments":true,"align_content":"alignleft","feature_color":"","article_updated":""},"taxonomyData":{"category":[{"term_id":47,"name":"Opinion","slug":"opinion","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":47,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":333,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[{"term_id":578,"name":"Humanities","slug":"humanities","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":578,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":27,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":2611,"name":"Tina Lupton","slug":"tina-lupton","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2611,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw"}],"post_format":[],"expression":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Opinion","slug":"opinion","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":2048,"filter":"raw"}],"translation_priority":[]},"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/christinaluptonsept18052.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125984"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125993,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125984\/revisions\/125993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}