New major is unnecessary, redundant
January 29, 2015Hopkins has launched a new major this semester called “Medicine, Science, and the Humanities.” In a press release, Beverly Wendland, the interim dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, described the major as a way to close the gap between science and the humanities. Using the phrase “interdisciplinary,” she asserts that Hopkins is the perfect institution to link science and the humanities together and that today in higher education, students should be educated in both instead of having to choose one or the other.