The integration of humanities and sciences has great potential in the future

2023-04-17

In the recently issued "Reform Plan for Adjusting and Optimizing the Setting of Disciplines and Majors in General Higher Education" by the Ministry of Education, it is specifically mentioned that "we should promote the cross integration of humanities, science, engineering, agriculture, and medicine disciplines, actively develop emerging humanities majors, and promote the transformation and upgrading of existing humanities majors". The issue of integrating humanities and sciences has sparked heated discussions among people. What is the background that makes knowledgeable individuals aware of the practical necessity of integrating humanities and sciences? Based on the author's observation, most graduates of traditional liberal arts majors are likely to come up with a bunch of reasons to advise people not to study liberal arts. I remember in my ancient literature class at university, the teacher once said, "Classmates, if you want to write about ancient literature in your graduation thesis in the future, remember not to write Tang poetry. Because all the poets included in" The Complete Tang Poetry ", even the least famous, have already been specially studied." This phrase just pointed to the awkward point of traditional humanities. Unlike most science and engineering disciplines that originated after the modern industrial revolution, traditional liberal arts such as literature, history, philosophy, etc. have a history of thousands of years. At best, these disciplines have a long and profound heritage; At worst, these disciplines have too much burden, too many senior masters, and the difficulty of innovation and breakthrough is too great... most importantly, their practicality is too poor. Even experts and professors have directly suggested that children from ordinary families should carefully choose "literary, historical, and philosophical". Although this statement has attracted many objections, there is also some truth from the perspective of students' future employment development. At the same time, it has also sparked people's thinking about "where traditional humanities should go". However, being able to combine practical humanities majors will bring more opportunities to practitioners. One of the ways to achieve the integration of humanities and science, as well as the upgrading and transformation of humanities majors, is to combine reality and make humanities more practical. Taking journalism as an example, for a long time, there has been a saying in the industry that "journalism has no learning". However, in recent years, with the rise of emerging media such as official account, short video, live broadcast, etc., a large number of We Media talents without academic background or media experience have been born, which has caused a huge impact on traditional media teaching. In response, many new communication colleges in universities have opened courses such as online new media, introducing technical tools from many other majors, including science and engineering, which has led to a series of interdisciplinary studies. This brings greater development prospects to students in related majors. Reality brings many inspirations to people: on the one hand, traditional humanities have their advantages, such as good writing skills and high aesthetics, and should continue to adhere to and carry forward; On the other hand, in order to meet practical needs, traditional humanities must innovate and transform, break out of their own small circle, and deeply integrate with other disciplinary fields. In fact, the integration of cross majors and the rise of interdisciplinary studies have been a new phenomenon and trend in the construction of disciplines in universities in recent years. Not only are humanities exploring and integrating with science, engineering, agriculture, and medicine, but science and engineering also offer humanities courses to enhance students' humanistic literacy. After all, the way to university is to cultivate people with sound mental character and complete knowledge structure, rather than being a professional technician. Even from a utilitarian perspective, with artificial intelligence

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