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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Liberal arts is in theory a fantastic intellectual foundation for life and a career, but in practice its been wrecked by wokeness.  Everyone recognizes this and is staying away.

If we can reform the liberal arts, it will flourish again.  [/quote]
It did not die out due to wokeness.  Liberal arts degrees have been declining for many years in part due to the growth in the tech sector, and more students majoring in business.[/quote]

And why are people so interested in majoring in "business" which typically not a rigorous degree where you learn boring things that were just picked up on the job by intelligent, well-rounded people years ago without the need for any courses?  Perhaps its all the stories they hear about people signing for literature courses and having to listen to political drivel rather than actually learn to appreciate literature.  [/quote]

Kids major in business because it's practical and interesting.  Also, most don't just "major in business".  They choose accounting or finance or entrepreneurship, which is much more rigorous than say "General Business" or "marketing".  That's where lots of Premed/Engineering kids head when they switch majors
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Accounting and finance are there own things.  I don't consider that majoring in business.  Accounting is a trade and a great one; not typical you would find it at LACs but much better choice than a business major.  High finance can be quite complex and is a very good major if you can actually get a finance job out of it; it used to be not as complex so the specialized training wasn't needed for undergrads, but the world has changed.

Entrepreneurship is a weird major, the vast majority of successful entrepreneurs say you learn by doing the thing, not studying it.

Marketing is not rigorous for most people or most places.  I could see it being a two year associates degree or a one year maters program, I have no idea why it would take four years to learn.

General business is primarily what I am criticizing, in decades past one could easily study philosophy or literature which are far more interesting and then just learn whatever general business stuff one needs to know on the fly.  [/quote]
Most business majors don't major in General Business, though. They usually pick a track. Finance, Accounting are the most popular tracks. [/quote]

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