I can corroborate that it gets crazy even in courses expecting high literacy. I had the painful experience of teaching a 3rd year course in communication studies that was part of the media production stream. It required writing preproduction documentation and a script. There were a lot of questionable attempts but there’s always a range of interest and skill, right? One student, and let me remind you this is third year at a university, I called into office hours. I’m a fan of poetry, so I just had to be sure that she wasn’t cleverly lampooning Gertrude Stein in some ironic way. Sadly, no, she just had no fucking clue how to write ANYTHING coherent. Amazing.
Comment on The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books
Ajen@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoThe article is about a course that’s required for all freshmen, not just lit majors. Here’s the first sentence of the article:
Nicholas Dames has taught Literature Humanities, Columbia University’s required great-books course, since 1998.
SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It still applies. If you cannot X, but X is required, don’t do it.
If you cannot read books, higher education is probably not your thing.
Ajen@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I didn’t say their point wasn’t valid, I just thought their reading comprehension was ironic.