This from College Fix:
George Washington University recently changed its requirements for history majors, removing previously key courses for the stated purpose of giving students more flexibility.
The department eliminated requirements in US, North American and European history….
More flexibility. Now, in GWU’s infinite wisdom, it’s possible for a pupil there to get a degree with a history (small ‘h,’ now) major without so much as a survey course—a 100-level Freshman course—in US history, Western history, or any idea at all about how we got where we are today: a nation that allows children to study unvarnished history at all. This statement from Katrin Schultriss, GWU’s Department of History Chair, comes without any sense in her of the irony of her remark:
Whatever they want to do, there’s a way to make the history department work for them.
A GWU History degree is now a participation award.
Unfortunately, GWU isn’t a standout on this; they’re just joining the mediocrity of our secondary “education” system.
…fewer than one-third of the nation’s leading universities require history majors to take a single course in US history.
No knowledge of who we are or how we came to be.
Dumbing down, indeed.
I would simply ignore the college background of any job applicant younger than about 35 – it’s only meaning would be the time spent there vs. the time spent learning about and operating in the real world. The “education” obtained is more likely to be detrimental than helpful in anything except the hard sciences and math. And those, regrettably, are being contaminated now.
And age 35 is an approximation, at best.