Colleges removing useless majors
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Anonymous
| They are t “useless” majors -they are those with low enrollment. Read first link on Marymount |
Anonymous
That is a WHOLE different thread, but yes. |
Anonymous
DP.. indeed, but it doesn't requiring being an English major to write decently enough at work. |
Anonymous
-1000 but you don't need to be an English major to go to law school. |
Anonymous
| I was an econ major, DH math. My mom English and secondary education. My sister and dad sociology. We all do very well. Liberal arts education helps you with writing, presentation skills, critical thinking. Shame on Marymount for getting rid of these majors! |
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Anonymous
AI will create contents as well. Essays, reports, research papers, poems, lyrics, blogs etc. etc. |
Anonymous
Attended a T10 university around same time and got an engineering degree and an art degree. For engineering I took the basic English writing course taught by 1st year grad students---it was required to be P/F. I used my APUSH for credits and took two Econ courses and a freshman Speech course (P/F required). That was it. I knew how to write and learned it thru my research documentation. But my "freshman writing course" was a joke. I took it year 4 (of my 5) so the "teacher" was only 1 year older than me. Basically as long as you made some changes with each draft of your assignment you passed. I recall one essay, I got 2nd or 3rd draft back with tons of red ink/markups. The comments were making suggestions that had been in my draft 2 almost word for word, but I had changed because of the comments on draft 2. So I took both drafts into the Teacher/TA and ask them which they would like me to use, because I only made the changes based on their comments. They didn't know quite what to say----I had already learned how to write at college level, but would have enjoyed a course more targeted specifically for STEM/engineering writing, like my kid is getting. |
Anonymous
If you have no connections and not great people skills, a hard major in a field that requires credentials is going to put you in a better position that a liberal arts major |
Anonymous
Ask 2008 JD grads how they’re doing. |
Anonymous
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I earned an English degree and fundraised more than 80 million for a nonprofit. Communications got me the job.
Also helped to launch mobile apps for the US government. So  to you, OP.
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Anonymous
And AI can teach classes one day, so we may as well fire all the professors. Can AI spit out speeches? We could fire all the politicians, too! |
Anonymous
I think the real issue is that college didn't used to be for everyone. This college for all model is failing our society. Not everyone is suited to and has the goal of being on law review at duke. A higher education isn't a requirement to building a good life and academia being overrun with people who think in terms of education being a "return on investment" is ruinng both the higher education world and not serving those cost conscious worker bee types well. Al of teh women in my family had higher education degrees and practically 90% of them never held any sort of paid position- they deserved to be there just as much as anyone else bc they loved getting an education and scholarship for its own sake, not necessarily as a meal ticket since hey were independently wealthy. If you need a return on investment the state universities and community college and vocational schools are where you belong, and some places of higher learning can pivot to serving those communities but higher education was founded way back in order to serve a population that wanted to increase human knowledge and be preoccupied with scholarly pursuits. People who just want to learn how to code or whatever dont actually belong there. Industry has changed and many jobs require one to sit at a desk but the people who occupy themselves with such tasks aren't scholars or "gentlemen" and honesly- the flattening of the class divide that happened during the 20th century is an aberration, we have reverted to the mean of a highly unequal society and some people have the money to sit around studying crystals and some ppl will use the knowledge in industry- there has to be roofer both. I mean look at bill gates- he wasn't a great scholar, he's a businessman and so he left academia to pursue that, its preposterous to claim that he should have twiddled his thumbs at university getting a degree he neither wanted nor needed. people should get the sort of training they need in order to live the sort of life that they want to build and its silly for people who are primarily concerned wit learning CS to land a job at amazon to be gunning for pincer- they should be gunning for Carnegie-mellon. people should know wether they are aspiring to be the F Scott Fitzgeralds of the world or the Thomas Edisons and choose accordingly |
Anonymous
Lol. I think this poster got dumped by an English major or something. Weirdly persistent and botter about English majors. |
Anonymous
Fortunately where I attended school the work for my freshman writing course was reviewed by a full professor. |