Humanities at Rice vs. UVa

slik_nik
Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:25:05 +0000

This question has been asked hundreds of times, even earlier this week. If you don’t get that many responses, I suggest using the “search this forum” option on the top of the page and type in humanities and see what you get.

These are my impressions (however, I’m not an expert in the humanities). First off, most Rice students end up graduating with the humanities or social sciences degree because these majors tend to be “easier” (of course, humanities/social sciences majors tend to be less difficult than math/science/engineering majors at almost all universities). Humanities/social sciences programs tend to be strong at Rice. I know there is a Writing Fellowship over the summer that pays $2,000 for you to write a 20 page paper on a topic of interest. Douglas Brinkley, one of the nation’s top historians, teaches at Rice… google him. Poli sci dept has some great professors. However, I’m only a freshman, so hopefully an upperclassmen majoring in the humanities/social sciences can chime in.