[Borges]

How sad. Nobody studies English to make a lot of money.

[Ge0ffrey]

Is it really English literature, or Marxist studies in disguise?

[FlingWingFlyer]

Employers these days prefer people who take Angry Lesbian Acrobat Studies over people who can read.

[TexasGator]

“How sad. Nobody studies English to make a lot of money.”

How sad. Nobody studies English Literature to make a lot of money.

[Savage Beast]

Whoever heard of Sheffield Hallam University?

[Eccl 10:2]

The course alone may not be bad. What needs to be eliminated are most of the humanities degrees.

[bunkerhill7]

Something`s rotten in Denmark

[Carriage Hill]

No one studies “Womyn’s Studies”, “Black History” and 300 other “courses” to get highly paid jobs, either. They all need to go away.

[PGR88]

A friend is an english professor at a local community college.

Someone needs to teach them English, because many of these kids/young adults seem to have never learned it in their previous 12 years of public schooling. Their essays are awful. They can’t show that to an employer who is offering a career, or they wouldn’t stand a chance.

[libh8er]

Without English majors who’s going to teach kids that them and their are singular?

[stanne]

A 20 something I know is a financial advisor with finance degree. Says she uses her knowledge of literature to judge what people might do, to determine trends in eco and Econ systems, to illustrate situations and ideas and to socialize and network among other things

Dumb it down. Hate western civ. Good idea. Not

[twoputt]

I remember when I took English Lit. in college.

That’s when I had my best afternoon naps.

[Seruzawa]

But they are keeping Islamic literature, I’ll bet.

[Whatever Works]

They should have started with gender studies.... After all, how can you study something you can’t even define?

[plain talk]

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.

[AppyPappy]

My daughter’s BF has an English degree and he makes good money....as a Programmer.

[jonascord]

Easy, hobby degrees are not the fast route to the CEO/billionaire corporate positions. But, math, or the STEM studies is hard.

Who knew?

[x]

Makes sense. It's not like they speak English in Britain.

[antidemoncrat]

“University drops English literature course ‘because graduates struggle to get highly paid jobs’”

Damnit my bullshit filter broke again.

[GOPJ]

More room for ‘grievance studies’.

[Zathras]

My brother has a number of acquaintances who got socialism degrees.
All they do now is complain how little they make and how retirement is going to be very tough.