{"id":17046,"date":"2017-09-20T16:09:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T20:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=17046"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:52:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:52:08","slug":"john-milloy-writes-relevance-arts-social-sciences-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2017\/john-milloy-writes-relevance-arts-social-sciences-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"John Milloy writes about the relevance of an arts and social sciences degree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        John Milloy writes about the relevance of an arts and social sciences degree\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>History alumnus John Milloy has written an article for the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance&#8217;s Educated Solutions publication where he discusses the benefits of a history degree in the search for employment. The full article, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net\/ousa\/pages\/1473\/attachments\/original\/1505227782\/2017_Issue_11_Student_Employment_ES_2017_website_document.pdf?1505227782\">Can an Arts and Social Sciences Degree Really Lead to a Good Job?<\/a>&#8220;, can be found online on page 12 of the OUSA publication with a short excerpt available below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Should arts and social science students abandon all hope and quickly transfer to business, computer science, or engineering? Or should they be confident about finding a good job in the&nbsp; current world of work?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hearing that question reminds me of a mid-1980s comic that chronicled the comings and goings of an eccentric family. The father asks his son what he has decided to choose as his major in university. When the boy responds, \u201chistory,\u201d Dad asks whether it will be easy to get a good job with a history degree. \u201cNo,\u201d the young student responds, \u201cbut it will help me become a great Trivial Pursuit player.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a young history undergraduate at the time, I got a good laugh from that particular strip which seemed to populate every history professor\u2019s bulletin board at my university. Back then I didn\u2019t necessarily disagree with the sentiment behind the comic. Although I loved history, I didn\u2019t really believe it would lead anywhere in terms of employment. I decided, however, to be a rebel and pursue an arts degree anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was wrong. Arts and social sciences degrees are great preparation for the world of work. And they are becoming even more relevant in the current knowledge economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About John Milloy:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Milloy is a former MPP and Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities for Ontario. He is currently serving as the Director of the Centre for Public Ethics and assistant professor<br>\nof public ethics at Waterloo Lutheran Seminary, and the inaugural practitioner in residence in Wilfrid Laurier University\u2019s Political Science department. He is also a lecturer in the University of<br>\nWaterloo\u2019s Master of Public Service Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History alumnus John Milloy has written an article for the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance&#8217;s Educated Solutions publication where he discusses the benefits of a history degree in the search for employment. The full article, &#8220;Can an Arts and Social Sciences Degree Really Lead to a Good Job?&#8220;, can be found online on page 12 of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"news-student"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17048,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17046\/revisions\/17048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}