Debate: Do Colleges Need French Departments?
With humanities programs being cut at many universities, what do students stand to lose?

Claim: Colleges need humanities programs
Reason: Liberal arts provide knowledge to learn creative thinking, reading, and writing which are important to many career paths.
Warrant 0: They can learn critical thinking In psychology courses
Warrant 1: They can learn critical thinking In humanities courses
Correct warrant: 1

Claim: Colleges need humanities programs
Reason: Understanding other culture is more important now than ever before.
Warrant 0: more people now understand other cultures
Warrant 1: more people now fail to understand other cultures
Correct warrant: 1

Claim: Colleges need humanities programs
Reason: Liberal arts provide knowledge to learn creative thinking, reading, and writing which are important to many career paths.
Warrant 0: those career paths are more than just being a liberal arts teacher or a hobo
Warrant 1: those career paths are being a liberal arts teacher or a hobo
Correct warrant: 0

Claim: Colleges need humanities programs
Reason: Learning just some French can help with travelling.
Warrant 0: a person can learn a little French without an entire class
Warrant 1: a person can most easily learn a little French with a class
Correct warrant: 1

Claim: Colleges need humanities programs
Reason: Understanding other culture is more important now than ever before.
Warrant 0: the best way to do that is to travel
Warrant 1: to travel is not necessarily the best way to do that
Correct warrant: 1

Claim: Colleges need humanities programs
Reason: We should support humanities programs to create a intellectual ecosystem that is complex and evolved.
Warrant 0: college is about job preparation and not complex intellectual ecosystems
Warrant 1: college is about complex intellectual ecosystems and not job preparation
Correct warrant: 1

Claim: Colleges need humanities programs
Reason: Humanities help students to process information and communicate with other people more effectively, sometimes in other languages.
Warrant 0: these are things that should be learned in the formative years or in one's spare time outside of school
Warrant 1: these are things that shouldn't be learned in the formative years or in one's spare time outside of school
Correct warrant: 1

Claim: Colleges need humanities programs
Reason: Americans need to learn about other cultures.
Warrant 0: some Americans can't travel to learn about other cultures
Warrant 1: Americans can travel to learn about other cultures
Correct warrant: 0

Claim: Colleges need humanities programs
Reason: Humanities help students to think about human dilemmas in a personal way.
Warrant 0: people should think about dilemmas in a general way
Warrant 1: people should think about dilemmas in a personal way
Correct warrant: 1

Claim: Colleges do not need humanities programs
Reason: Humanities programs teach non-essential information.
Warrant 0: People are not better equipped in life when they can speak another language.
Warrant 1: People are better equipped in life when they can speak another language.
Correct warrant: 0