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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While the liberal arts face a headwind because of STEM, they also hurt themselves by shifting from Shakespeare and Plato toward wokeness. It's a different kind of person who goes for what liberal arts are today and there aren't as many of them.

[quote=Anonymous]I was looking up colleges on this government College Navigator site and it was somewhat eye-opening how few students are majoring in liberal arts disciplines, with the exceptions being science and psychology. I guess it shouldn't be surprising given the high cost of college and economic uncertainty, but as a former social science major it makes me a bit sad.

Site: https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/[/quote][/quote]
You cannot find an English department in this country that doesn't overreach Renaissance and classical English literature studies and theory. No one is teaching "wokeness" full time. The wokest schools force as much Shakespeare, Milton, Joyce, Eliot, Dostoevsky, Homer, Faulkner as they possibly can on top of your shoulders. You may take a seminar in women writers or black writers but that isn't "wokeness"-just non-white men have also written books before.[/quote]

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