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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most people are thinking about their experiences studying English in college 20-30 years ago, which is when parents of current students were in college. It's not the same world. It's not the same English departments. Even if the course has innocent titles like Shakespeare, how it is taught is very different. Worth reading this substack by a recent Columbia graduate with a degree in English.

https://www.pensandpoison.org/p/i-thought-i-was-going-to-study-literature

She may only be one person but what she says is corraborated by several old friends who are professors. Not every school is quite like Columbia but this ideological approach to teaching English (and history) is pervasive in many places. This kind of shift is certainly one of the multiple factors behind the dramatic collapse in students majoring in the humanities. [/quote]

"You can imagine my astonishment, then, when I learned that by some twisted perversion of fate, literature had become virtually synonymous with radical leftism in the contemporary literary academy." Ha! That was already true at GMU 30 years ago. Everything was "problematic". Just read about half the books, try to attend as many classes as you can (more important than the reading), and breeze through with Cs. My parents paid for this!!![/quote]

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