Thanks for your reply. There are some undergraduate degrees (such as education and nursing) that prepare students for particular careers. But I would argue that most majors, not just liberal arts majors, don’t.

The student’s interest should definitely be the only metric of a curriculum’s value since the student is responsible for covering the cost of it. If I only want to buy steak with gravy, I shouldn’t be forced by the restaurant to also buy vegetables, because, according to the restaurant’s owner, I need vegetables in my diet.

Liberal arts research isn’t comparable with the scientific method. So, it’s not important for liberal arts majors to learn how to conduct scientific experiments. The same holds true the other way. In the U.S., chemistry and biology majors have to take history among their prerequisites. This is also useless and unnecessary. There is nothing about history that’s not covered in grade school that they need to learn to function as adults in the scientific and medical fields.