the wonderful, informative sense of context, structure, themes, and organization about my personal specialized interests and, by extension, human behavior and the world.
I took the following contextual courses:
Intro to Greek and Roman Classics
Comparative Lit from Homer On
Canadian Lit (19th & 20th century)
20th Century Am Lit
19th & 20th Century British Lit
20th Century Poetry
Intro to Eng Lit
Can History
British History
Philosophy–basic and aesthetics.
This is an Arts grounding no longer possible at many universities. Deep/broad/inclusive-perspectived courses that today’s students can take no longer in the fashionable morass of technology, deconstructionist post-modernism, and MeToo. There is no longer any sense of significant general context and history (aside from the limited/limiting pc agenda courses) offered at most universities. Yeats’ “The centre cannot hold” is surely truer than ever before in post-secondary these non-book reading daze.