The Decline and Fall of the English Major

The Importance of the English Major

There is a certain literal-mindedness in the recent shift away from the humanities. It suggests a number of things. One, the rush to make education pay off presupposes that only the most immediately applicable skills are worth acquiring (though that doesn’t explain the current popularity of political science). Two…

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• cognition
• communication
• expression
• humanities