Liberal-arts degrees are a very controversial topic. Economists and many others tend to urge people to avoid getting a degree in the liberal-arts field based on numerous misconceptions. Ungar refutes the misconceptions in his essay “The New Liberal Arts”. A typical misconception would be that a liberal-arts degree is a luxury that only the rich can afford. Along with the misconception comes the “career education” desired by many of the rising college bound students. Ungar asserts that a liberal-arts degree is of greater value than a degree in STEM because the near future will require understanding of complex influences that will shape the world. To insist that college graduates with liberal-arts degrees are struggling to find a job would be
