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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Eliminate all majors with the word “Studies” in the title.


5 posted on 01/16/2018 8:01:01 PM PST by nickedknack
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If somebody wants to pay for it, let them.

The problem comes when they want us to pay for it - either “free education” or forgiveness of student loan debt when they can’t find a job paying over minimum wage with their worthless degree.


6 posted on 01/16/2018 8:06:59 PM PST by utford
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that still leaves political science


8 posted on 01/16/2018 8:07:53 PM PST by snarkytart
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Eliminate all majors with the word “Studies” in the title.

Good start.

18 posted on 01/16/2018 8:40:52 PM PST by libertylover (Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
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To: nickedknack
Eliminate all majors with the word “Studies” in the title. Eliminate all majors with the word “Studies” in the title.

That would be a good start. I would even take a hard look at the reforms Norman Foerster was advocating in the 1930's and 1940's.

Arguing that colleges in the 1920's and '30's were in a full-scale revolt against tradition and increasingly adopting utilitarian curricula that made them essentially glorified vocational/technical schools, Foerster advocated that the undergraduate curriculum cover "history, philosophy, science, and language and literature,” with an emphasis on the Great Books that have stood the test of time. He also argued that specialization and the pursuit of majors be put off until graduate school. See his book The Humanities and the Common Man (1946).

19 posted on 01/16/2018 8:41:54 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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Also end a curriculum that ends in ology.


46 posted on 01/17/2018 5:37:46 PM PST by ully2
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