Millennials aren't ready for the 'reality of life'

[Speaker to Animals]

Not really.

There is no realistic way to actually pack the entire humanities curricula students are supposed to receive in their freshman and sophomore years into a single semester. In all likelihood, they are treating it as a survey course, and students are not reading every text in its entirety. Nor can they possibly spend much time at analysis of each text.

The blog author paints this as some boon because the course is hard and look how wonderful it is that late millennials are willing to do something challenging for a change. That's nonsense. The course is not hard but, rather, unrealistic.

The tragedy is that these students' only hope to receive the humanities portion of their college education is in a single semester elective, that has to be nothing more than a survey with no depth and nothing to gain other than to have read a few entire texts, and probably mostly synopses and fragments.

If anything these students should be outraged, but they do not know any better. People who never went to a real university before the very early 2000s likely have no idea what was lost.

[The Conservative]

Not really.

There is no realistic way to actually pack the entire humanities curricula students are supposed to receive in their freshman and sophomore years into a single semester. In all likelihood, they are treating it as a survey course, and students are not reading every text in its entirety. Nor can they possibly spend much time at analysis of each text.

The blog author paints this as some boon because the course is hard and look how wonderful it is that late millennials are willing to do something challenging for a change. That's nonsense. The course is not hard but, rather, unrealistic.

The tragedy is that these students' only hope to receive the humanities portion of their college education is in a single semester elective, that has to be nothing more than a survey with no depth and nothing to gain other than to have read a few entire texts, and probably mostly synopses and fragments.

If anything these students should be outraged, but they do not know any better. People who never went to a real university before the very early 2000s likely have no idea what was lost.

Again, it’s a start.

I may not agree with how they are going about it, but if they made it manditkry, how many kids would butch they have to learn about dead old white men?

[C-Mag]

I had to read all of that. Over two semesters rather than one, but still.. Actually educating students instead of indoctrinating them with pozzed, postmodern bullshit is novel now?

What is worse is that this is an elective rather than the core humanities one should learn to get a bachelor's degree. I suspect they had to cram so much into a single elective course because most of the general education requirements now are locked in with leftist indoctrination and fake academics.

It’s a start in the right direction.

Agree to both.

It's pretty cool that the toughest course in America is not at Harvard or Yale or anywhere in the Ivy League but in the Midwest. This could start something. VDH has got to be loving it.

[Fife]

Millennial girls are so damned interesting, though. So inquisitive and outward looking.

[heydaralon]

Millennial girls are so damned interesting, though. So inquisitive and outward looking.

I read Slaughterhouse Five more than once, but you don't see me bragging about it on the internet. It is a very intellectually riveting book, filled with motifs and complex wordplay that would probably exceed the mental abilities of the average Tennesssean. Its quite long too, which discourages most readers, but I have grown to love the challenge of a 300 page novel.