A Positive Suggestion

A positive suggestion that could respect literature, conserve resources and maximise student freedom would be to abolish all requisites above the 100 level. Presumably some basic skills are necessary to do English. These skills, namely how to read, how to analyse can be built into a general stage I course. After that the course could be structured up to a total 36 credits in any way at all. This would respect that fact that it is impossible to defend assertions that the Victorians are essential but the 20th Century isn't, and so on. And it would also get rid of that language requirement. After all, does a pass in Indonesian I really make it that much easier to understand Charles Dickens?