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[quote=Anonymous]You're talking about different student demographics. Cultural Studies/Sociology have stayed the same in grads but as departments have gotten much more popular because of student interests and they tend to cover "ignored histories" in ways that others fields do a terrible job at (looking at you anthropology). The liberal arts are in a weird limbo, especially English departments-they are both expected to teach a relative few amount of students who have any interest in knowing who Proust or Pound is, while also becoming the dumping ground for all writing content. There's less liberal arts majors more than ever but many colleges will have the liberal arts courses as the most subscribed, because they've become the bottom barrel "Core curriculum" and "Intro to [technical/creative/professional/rhetorical] writing"[/quote]
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