How much *should* public college cost?

[ucbalumnus]

@gwnorth

The only downside is that it could possibly lead to the demise of humanities programs. One way to solve that problem though would be to require students regardless of degree to take a number of humanities/arts/social studies courses so while they wouldn’t necessarily be majoring in those disciplines there would still be enough students taking courses to support maintaining those departments.

This is already the norm in the US, a few open curriculum schools notwithstanding. But having students take general education courses does not necessarily make enough demand for the department to continue offering a major in the subject.