Why Not

More fairly, let us grant that studying a foreign language can give you useful knowledge about the structure of grammar. But is this more important than a knowledge of the classics? Why not a requirement in Greek or Roman literature? And why not sociology so that we can pick out the social themes? Or history? Or anthropology to get over ethnocentric attitudes to our own and other literature? Lots of things would enrich an English major. But why not leave it up to the students to decide how he enhances it? It could also be hoped that this precedent of abolishing requisites would encourage other departments to streamline their course structures in the same way. The division between stage II and III courses itself is often an artificial progression, the order in which these courses are taken could so often be reversed with nothing lost.