[Chickensoup]

Suppose you have to take a finger painting class in order to get a degree. Then of course you must buy a textbook (written by the teacher and only available in their book store), 400 hues of paint, and canvas made of a particular reed that grows only a few days a year in Borneo. It’s all a scam.

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there is another reason, all the different humanities departments live and die on numbers of students enrolled in their courses. So of course you have to take mandatory art, women studies, philosophy etc.

[Telepathic Intruder]

"all the different humanities departments live and die on numbers of students enrolled"

Yes of course, or the teacher would have to get another job. A few do aim for degrees in these fields, but then their only hope of using it is to get a teaching job, just perpetuating the cycle.