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Double major benefits students
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Monday, December 15, 1986
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The job market is always good for a
student with a liberal-arts major,
although the push for more liberal arts
has just blossomed in the past two or
three years, said Gerry Phaneuf, director
of the Office of Career Planning and
Placement.
"Employers are seeking arts and
sciences majors," Phaneuf said. "There
is a fairly good percentage of companies
doing that."
Phaneuf, who received his bachelor's
degree in sociology, said that he didn't
know how to apply for his degree when
he graduated.
"The degree isn't always job-related,"
he said.
Employers will be more apt to look
for those candidates who fit their
positions, rather than a person who has
the appropriate degree, Phaneuf said.
Students would be best served if they
took a double major, one vocational,
such as business or journalism, the
other a liberal-arts major, he said.
"That kind of combination could be
very, very good, he said.
Numerous reasons are cited for the
change in attitude. Ten years ago, there
was a tendency to view science and
technology as dehumanizing, Yost said.
But now, he said, people are able to see
the challenge of technological change,
and this is urging students to seek
double majors.
"We have to ask what liberal arts
should be," Yost said. "It has to mean
more than the great books when we are
dealing with a technological society.
We have to ask, 'should technology be a
part of the liberal arts and can there be
an educated person today without some
knowledge of technology?' "
Built-in conflict
In trying to deal with this question,
there is a built-in conflict in the way a
large university, like UNL, is designed,
according to John Berman, chairman of
the department of psychology. Subse
quently, there is a constant dilemma
UNL honorary society
initiates 10 members
Ten senior UNL students were initia
ted into the UNL chapter of Phi Beta
Kappa national scholastic honorary
society at a ceremony Friday in the
Nebraska Union.
The ceremony preceded the honor
society's fall banquet. The speaker for
the event was Charles Oldfather, pro
fessor of law at the University of Kansas
and son of the former UNL chancellor
for whom Oldfather Hall is named.
The new members elected to Phi
Beta Kappa include:
Shauna J. Meyer, a mathematics
major from Auburn.
Andrea Kay Bjorklund, a his
tory and French major from Lincoln.
Matthew R. Larson, a history
major from Lincoln.
Jana Rae Turpin McGuire, a
broadcasting major from Lincoln.
Patrick Joseph Nebel, a mathe
matics major from Lincoln.
Steven D. Johnson, a psycholo
gyorganizational communication major
from Lincoln.
Craig Allan Riecke, a computer
science major from Lincoln.
Tim Lee Teebken, a speech com
munications major from Nickerson.
Cody W. Wall, a political science
major from Guttenberg, la.
Teri Claire Sperry, an English
major from Parsons, Tenn.
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between liberal arts and technical
courses of study.
"We try to do a bit of both, and we
end up in between," Berman said.
The economy may be another reason
for the change. Students may look at
what is happening to their wallets and
become tense with the prospects,
Hilliard said. Subsequently, they may
be more apt to turn to those subjects
that are more "relaxed" such as those
in the liberal arts.
No one is certain how long the trend
toward liberal education will last, but
several agreed that it should last several
years.
While Berman feels that in five or six
years, the pendulum should start
swinging back toward vocational sub
jects, Phaneuf thinks that it will last
for "quite a long time."
No matter how long it continues,
Yost said he is convinced that such an
emphasis will "prepare students to
have a flexible handle on a changing
world,"
It is not, however, just the curriculum
that will benefit by these changes, Yost
said. Out of it all will come a new spirit
and a new attitude, he said.
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