Failure and the Liberal Arts

I was a Comparative Literature major specifically because it allowed me to take the broadest range of courses. I studied everything from critical theory to linguistics (which led me to a ling minor) to art history to epic oral poetic tradition.

I would have loved to have taken more than the intro CS courses, but they were restricted to majors only. Same with many journalism courses, art/photography courses, etc.

I think it's really unfortunate considering many emerging fields consist, as TFA suggests, in the intersections of current fields. HCI, for example, isn't just about engineering. It certainly looks as the the future of journalism is going to be as much about data manipulation as it is about traditional journalistic methods.