“Four specific literature courses were mandatory prior to graduation”
I hated that nonsense, except the number of cute chicks increased at each class. Damn mandatory too for 16 credits. Until now, I had no clue how Rudyard Kipling was related to my Business major unless he wrote a poem on financial analytics.
We are seeing the effects of a generation or two that have been nudged away from the classics. I have seen students from a private schools that still mandate reading classics and some students from public schools who read tripe about homosexual identity yada yada and I can say there is no intellect comparison. Private school kids are higher on the intellect, critical thinking, and reasoning scale.
Reading literature, no matter your degree plan, makes you smarter.
It isn’t nonsense — and while Kipling can be enjoyable, he has no literary merit worthy of college study.