Anonymous
03/22/2023 09:56
Subject: Re:Colleges removing useless majors
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:LOL these English majors think a few examples they know speak for the whole
They currently lack college level thinking and argument skills.
English major indeed seems useless.
Dude -I think you mean DISCURSIVE skills not ARGUMENT skills - since argument is a noun. But what do we English majors know?
Sorry English major, 'Argument Skills' is commonly used term.
https://www.globalcognition.org/argument-skills-how-to-teach/
https://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/dk100/faculty-profile/files/Kuhn_Udell_2003_Thedevelopmentofargumentskills.pdf
https://www.wikihow.com/Category:Argument-Skills
Anonymous
03/22/2023 09:45
Subject: Re:Colleges removing useless majors
Anonymous wrote:LOL these English majors think a few examples they know speak for the whole
They currently lack college level thinking and argument skills.
English major indeed seems useless.
Dude -I think you mean DISCURSIVE skills not ARGUMENT skills - since argument is a noun. But what do we English majors know?
Anonymous
03/22/2023 04:42
Subject: Re:Colleges removing useless majors
Anonymous wrote:I teach college humanities. My program serves hundreds of students and I work very hard. It's my dream job, but I prepare my students for what I hope are _their_ dream jobs, and they're pretty darned successful.
Am I useless?
It depends on what you are teaching. Too much of college now is about race/gender/sex ideology.