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| The disappearing Interdisciplinary Humanities degree |
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Posted by: EliEverIsAHero - 01-04-2026, 11:12 AM - Forum: General Education-Related Discussion
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My initial alma mater used to provide degrees in Interdisciplinary Humanities at the Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral levels.
The Doctoral program was scrapped and, at the graduate level, the program was retrofitted entirely into a Master's in something called "Digital Humanities", which is largely about online archiving and digital archaeology, such as it is.
I noticed something similar happening with another university, Salve Regina University; Salve used to provide a robust Doctoral program simply in "Humanities", which has since tried to save itself by rebranding as something like "Humanities and Technology."
I think there are a number of factors that have influenced the dissolution of a "pure" interdisciplinary Humanities degree; ironically, an Interdisciplinary Humanities program, as such, has the greatest precedent in how academia was initially structured during its early days in Europe. But the disappearance of the Interdisciplinary Humanities degree, all in all, was influenced by the 2008 financial crisis causing (as a second-order effect) an identity crisis among universities, which often branded themselves as career factories and struggled to market programs that didn't have a clear study-to-work pipeline or represent a linear professional path.
That said the Interdisciplinary Humanities degree was not always a bust. Prior to the dissolution of my first alma mater's Interdisciplinary Humanities program, I knew quite a few Doctorate-holders in it, most of whom went into some form of teaching profession with their degree + a state teacher certification, or a private/preparatory school gig that did not require state licensure. Other students in the now-defunct Interdisciplinary Humanities Doctoral program were already practitioners of various represented disciplines seeking a breadth-based rather than depth-based scholar-practitioner route.
If there is a lesson from this, it is that the Interdisciplinary Humanities program started going the way of the dodo mainly because the variations on why people did the degree plus the career paths they demonstrated were hard to explain to an increasingly streamlined, linear, narrow, quick-and-dirty-summary-focused view of higher education. This included at the doctoral level where a graphic designer using their contract money to study for a Classics/Theatre/Religion all-in-one doctorate or a private school teacher trying to top-up their credentials via another customized variation of Humanities disciplines while existing outside of the state licensure system didn't read as legible.
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| TESU Wrong Credit Evaluations |
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Posted by: foolmethrice - 01-04-2026, 05:46 AM - Forum: TESU - Thomas Edison State University Discussion
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Hi I’m trying to get ACE credits done before starting BA in CS at TESU. I did a bunch of SDC courses (subscription expired now) and used both free transfer credit evaluations at TESU already. They evaluated SDC’s Political Science 102: American Government as equivalent to POS-1000 United States Government, instead of POS-1100 American Government which was what I was expecting. They also evaluated SDC’s Environmental Science 101 as equivalent to ENS-2000, instead of EAS-101 which was what I was expecting. Because of those differences I’m still short on the Civic and Global Leadership - Civic Engagement and Awareness requirement and the Scientific Knowledge requirement. I was using a spreadsheet from the website Major Mash.
Should I send TESU an email asking them to re-evaluate those courses? I think I can take Saylor’s POLSC201 or POLSC221 for the Civic Engagement and Awareness requirement but I don’t know how to meet the Scientific Knowledge requirement without spending like $100 on a Sophia subscription. Do you guys have any advice? Thank you!
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| Class of '09 video game/visual novel series |
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Posted by: EliEverIsAHero - 01-03-2026, 11:28 PM - Forum: Off Topic
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Really just posting this to see if there are any other fans of these games and their universe in here.
This trilogy is a latest obsession of mine and I can't stop thinking about the motivations and psychology of the characters in these games and how they interact.
The humor is edgy-cringe leading into Bojack Horseman-style mental spirals among the main characters, and I'm there for it.
It's not for everyone, but has some hilariously bizarre moments.
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| Claim I heard about Cambodian universities not being "internationally accredited"? |
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Posted by: EliEverIsAHero - 01-03-2026, 02:29 PM - Forum: General Education-Related Discussion
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What exactly does this mean?
Someone I knew who had lived several years in Cambodia was complaining that students from Cambodian universities could not find careers abroad easily because degrees from Cambodian universities were "not internationally accredited".
Does this mean that they are simply treated with more scrutiny by WEC, etc.? I've never heard of "international accreditation" as such, but I could imagine a specific country's universities running into Quality Control issues re: credentials evaluators.
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