While McMaster STEM students are helping to build our future, the humanities help to ensure it’s one worth living in. McMaster humanities play a pivotal role in fostering critical thinking, ethics and social consciousness. While STEM is vital in such a rapidly changing world, McMaster humanities play a pivotal role in fostering critical thinking, ethics and social consciousness. Through its strong emphasis on critical thinking and creating well-rounded students, the humanities at McMaster serve to shape students in a wide range of ways. Humanities at McMaster encourage abstract thinking, storytelling and questioning assumptions, which are essential skills needed to fuel innovation and development and to foster groundbreaking discoveries.