| I have found that the humanities classes I've taken at Caltech were very, very well taught. A lot of people agree with me that the best (at teaching) professor here is someone in the history department. The course offerings are varied enough that I've been able to find something new that interests me a lot every term. Some of the humanities courses are taught with a bit of a science bent, which makes them more enjoyable to people who weren't big on humanities in high school. I've only taken two social science courses, but they weren't as well taught, probably because they were both large intro courses. ASCIT has a website where students can list course reviews which is really useful for picking a well-taught HSS class.
A large percentage of people double major with a humanity or social science, so plenty of people enjoy the HSS courses enough to want to take extra ones on top of their likely already heavy technical schedule. |