Re: not playing so nice

I guess we have different experiences, then -- I was an English major at
Rollins College in Winter Park, FL, and Literary Theory was an
elective. The grad level theory course where I am now is an elective
too. As an undergrad theory was hardly covered at all in lit courses,
and as a grad student it was explained in relationship to the latest
literary criticism in the field in my lit courses. Some of the older
professors Do Not Like It when you reference too many outside sources in
your papers, actually -- they want you to demonstrate a command of the
basic material and independent thought about the subject.

Other students in my Ph.D. program now used to ask me why I tortured
myself with my Frankfurt School comp philosophy classes.

I think demographics shifting toward women in the humanities is a pretty
recent thing -- so it makes sense that most our professors would have
been male (though I think it's close to an even split in my experience,
though). I'd bet in the next ten, fifteen years that changes.

I'd bet a male/female ratio that favors males in philosophy majors is
pretty common across the country. Hard to find national demographics
about this, though.

Jim

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Received on Tue Aug 12 13:17:24 2003