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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Students are bored by reading nothing but Wordsworth and Shakespeare, and I don't blame them. There's more depth and research in literature.[/quote]

What a gross misstatement about students' interests. [b]If anything, they should be reading more classics such as Wordsworth and Shakespeare., which takes effort.[/b][/quote]

This type of narrow minded speaking is killing English as a major area of study. [/quote]
+1,[b] DS loves literature, but his college’s English department is all-out Hostile against offering non Renaissance/victorian or  medieval literature. In a given semester, less than 3 American English courses are offered but British writers can’t be escaped. 
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English is bleeding students to other humanities social sciences, because it simply hasn’t adapted with the time. It used to be a fun radical study in close reading, but those students are leaving to black/queer/American studies. Comparative literature requires you to engage with international audiences in a way that English simply refuses.[/quote]

I find it interesting that you are only talking about British v. American literature. It shows a limited understanding of what classes should be the basis of an English major. I guarantee that the school offers a wide variety of global classes or identity based classes.

I doubt anyone that responded has looked at the current course catalogs of SLACs. We have because my junior will be majoring in English. If anything, a Republican would call them "too woke" without enough "tradional" English classes.

My junior is looking at LAC and SLACs as an English major. We have yet to find a school like you describe. [/quote]
Mine goes the the Claremont colleges and there is hardly any “woke” English courses. There’s over 5 Shakespeare adjacent courses next year, multiple Wordsworth courses, and only a few demographic courses (Asian American lit)[/quote]

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