Unit 5 Discussion: The Relationship of Humanities and Your Field 1

Choose one of the following articles about how the humanities relate to a field in your college, or find a related article to discuss. Include the following in your discussion:

Provide an APA reference entry to identify the article you chose.
Summarize the article in your own words.
What did you learn from the article about how the humanities relates to your field of study or future career?
Discuss one way the humanities and/or the information from this article may be useful to you as you develop your career.
General connections

View from the Intersection: Why we need the humanities and arts: http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/magazine/fall-2013/view-from-the-intersection.html (Links to an external site.)
At MIT, the humanities are just as important as STEM:http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/04/30/mit-humanities-are-just-important-stem/ZOArg1PgEFy2wm4ptue56I/story.html (Links to an external site.)
Health Sciences

Interacting with the medical humanities: https://cndls.georgetown.edu/projects/interacting-with-the-medical-humanities/. (Links to an external site.) Go to the project website https://sites.google.com/a/georgetown.edu/mdarts/home (Links to an external site.) and select one of the units in order to find some wonderful examples that really do a great job of illustrating the connection between art and medicine.
Linking Professional and liberal learning in nursing education: https://www.aacu.org/publications-research/periodicals/linking-liberal-and-professional-learning-nursing-education (Links to an external site.)
Business

How do the humanities impact business? https://asunews.asu.edu/20130208_humanitiesinbusiness (Links to an external site.)
Want Innovative Thinking? https://hbr.org/2011/03/want-innovative-thinking-hire/ (Links to an external site.)
Technology

Steve Jobs: “Technology Alone is not Enough”: http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/steve-jobs-technology-alone-is-not-enough (Links to an external site.)
Intelligent Machines: The Robotics of Humanity:http://sites.northwestern.edu/akih/2015/03/01/intelligent-machines-the-robotics-of-humanity/ (Links to an external site.)