Should English majors pay less?

[Jolly]

Differential tuition...

https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2024/12/should-english-majors-pay-less/

[Aqua Letifer]

They should all have their own separate colleges.

[Axtremus]

Maybe set the tuition for each class separately. Registering for classes can be done like online shopping -- you put the classes you want, the tuition for each is clearly marked, into a virtual shopping cart and then you "checkout" knowing exactly the total tuition for all the classes for which you are registering.

Also, reduce distribution requirements -- most of it is just forcing students/customers to take classes they don't want and it's mostly wasteful.

[Tom-K]

Ok, no. When they say "English majors" they mean "studies" majors. That is: Wymyn, Trans, Gay, etc. Also, who really cares about them? I'd charge more for any majors that are "non-productive" to our society. On the other hand make STEM majors low cost or even free. Let's have lots of electrical and chemical engineers and maybe fewer Black Studies majors. The country will be a better place for it.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Tom-K said in Should English majors pay less?:

Ok, no. When they say "English majors" they mean "studies" majors. That is: Wymyn, Trans, Gay, etc. Also, who really cares about them? I'd charge more for any majors that are "non-productive" to our society. On the other hand make STEM majors low cost or even free. Let's have lots of electrical and chemical engineers and maybe fewer Black Studies majors. The country will be a better place for it.

Not all English programs are like your state's New College of Florida.

[Horace]

It would be funny if math classes, those perfect prototypes of classes you can learn straight from a textbook with no help from a human instructor, and whose material has been the same for 100 or more years, cost more, because they happen to be on the path of the most marketable degrees.