Before writing your response to this week’s discussion, please read the following essays that take different positions on the role of the humanities in higher education.

1) Marilynne Robinson, What Are We Doing Here?

World of Ideas, page 426

2) There Is No Case For The Humanities, Justin Stover

https://www.chronicle.com/article/There-Is-No-Case-for-the/242724 (Links to an external site.)

Please answer the following questions after having read both essays. 

1) Briefly summarize what each writer is arguing about the role of the humanities in higher education.

2) Which writer’s argument do you agree with and why? Feel free to give reasons from your readings or personal experience.  Isolate any fallacies in the arguments to make your point.

Length: Between 350 and 500 words

Your original response is due by midnight Wed, and your responses to two other posts are due by midnight next Sunday.