Students respond to Marymount’s cancellation of humanities majors

Written by: Emily Luong
Photography by: Tung Anh Tran

Students have ideas about which majors and courses Marymount should add after the university eliminated nine humanities majors in February. Adding graduate programs, and adding more high-demand courses and courses that prepare graduates for a career search are among the proposals.

Truc Anh Quach, an Interior Design major at Marymount, said she would like more specialized courses to help students better prepare when they graduate. Quach said she believes Marymount University made the right decision by canceling nine majors. “There aren’t a lot of students applying to these programs, so Marymount should cancel them to save money for opening a new curriculum,” Quach said. Even though Marymount canceled Theology, courses will still be offered, and Theology will remain in the Theology core course group. ” I think that Theology core courses are unnecessary, my friends at Marymount complained that they don’t want to take Theology, but they still have to because it’s a requirement to graduate,” Quach said Marymount should also cancel the Theology core course requirement and open more high-demand courses like English and Mathematics. 

Quan McKay, an Interior Design major, said he thinks Marymount should add more graduate programs to attract more students to Marymount. McKay said the school should add networking and training events, career counseling, arts and performance events, and community outreach programs such as public lectures. “Marymount has great professors, great networking, and offers a lot of readily accessible services like financial aid and health care,” Mckay said. Tung Anh Tran, a Business major, said he thinks Marymount could increase the number of high-demand courses. ” I’m a business major, so I have to take 1-2 Economics and Mathematical courses each semester, but there wasn’t a lot of Science and Mathematics.​