Posted on 06/27/2022 7:43:22 AM PDT by Borges
A university has suspended its English literature course, after a Government crackdown on perceived "low value" degrees.
Sheffield Hallam University said that the core humanities subject is among the courses that will be suspended for the 2023/24 academic year, but did not clarify the reason behind the decision or say how long the suspension would last.
Dr Mary Peace, an English literature lecturer at the university, told The Telegraph that staff were informed of the decision five minutes before a departmental away day.
She said that she believes the rationale behind the decision was “largely economic”, and suggested that the decision was made over a poor job return for graduates amid expectations of students being in a “highly-skilled” job within six months.
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I remember when I took English Lit. in college.
That’s when I had my best afternoon naps.
Business and Engineering are the fields to go into. But both take a lot of work.
The shame is that people invest a lot of money in a degree that has no prospects of a job. College should be considered job training and nothing else.
A useless degree is a very bad “life” decision. Even more of a shame is forcing the rest of us to pay for their useless degree. It is unfair to make a person in the trades to pay for someone’s degree who wasted 4 years and thousands of dollars.
I actually enjoyed it. Tons of reading! One novel per week and an essay after! And we were required to have 2 years of lit?
But they are keeping Islamic literature, I’ll bet.
They should have started with gender studies.... After all, how can you study something you can’t even define?
Perhaps they are cancelling an english literature degree or curriculum.
I took some non-technical courses like English literature. Can’t say I enjoyed them all that much but learning about a variety of subjects is good whether you take it in a university or peruse the internet.
My daughter’s BF has an English degree and he makes good money....as a Programmer.
...I think the correct term is “wokocity.” And no, the sociologists don’t want you studying wokocity, you’ll come to the wrong conclusions and that would NEVAH DO.
My "English" teachers never did a very good job teaching formal grammar. It was my 10th grade German class that forced me to learn formal grammar. It was necessary to master both English and German grammar to get the concepts right. In recent years, my study of Welsh, Gaelic and Japanese was more successful with an understanding of formal grammar and how each language is structured.
Beyond grammar, the literature in each language embraces cultural constructs. Michael Savage was right about borders, language and culture. It's important to learn those constructs to successfully interact with with a given nationality/ethnicity in a context they understand.
Who knew?
I enjoy "data science" oriented work. Wrapping your head around the "problem space" and working out solutions to tease out something useful is good exercise for the neurons.
And make some decent coin while you’re at it.
I’m doing some reading on information theory and Claude Shannon currently.
Large corporations are looking for a cheap, submissive work force which has no recourse in the political system. Hence the continuing popularity of the H1-B program. A fake credential from a foreign country will do just fine as a "degree", and actual skill levels are a minor consideration.
College education in almost every liberal arts program is a racket funded by student loans, and ultimately by taxpayers. Those programs have nothing to do with employment prospects.
Unfortunately, the rot is soaking into science, engineering, and medical programs as well. A degree is required in those fields but is increasingly less likely to correlate with skills or training. Too many set-asides for the favored minority group of the year are starting to degrade the results.
Companies are perfectly happy to strip-mine the work force of skilled and experienced persons. The same companies are unwilling to pay for training.
I worked with grad stuents for 6 years. Hardly any of them could write (speak or read) a sentence with a subject and predicate.
As far as life skills go, English Lit was the most worthless college course I ever took outside of having inane social conversations here and there over the years.
“University drops English literature course ‘because graduates struggle to get highly paid jobs’”
Damnit my bullshit filter broke again.
More room for ‘grievance studies’.
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