Academia in a nutshell
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Very university dependent. In top 10 schools, you learn, it’s hyper competitive, and the professors are great. If you’re in a fake subject, that won’t apply, but you’ll still learn about as much as there is to know. Most of those schools are now filled with internationals that smile and nod to SJW stuff but mostly ignore it.
Aren't the top schools the most woke these days?
They try to present themselves that way to get their ranking up, but most undergrads there actually are international or first generation STEM type folks though that don’t actually care or dislike it but don’t say much about it. Gen Z also seems to have more conservatives.
I cannot imagine why critical studies courses aren't being removed because of under-enrollment, unless colleges are including them as part of degree requirements.
I'd bet that the infestation of critical social justice concepts into the humanities--and now even the sciences--is a way to ensure against the removal of SocJus courses. It's being shoehorned in everywhere.
At least in my area I don’t think they’re under enrolled. STEM folks would obviously want to avoid them in most cases, but they do make for an easy A requirement if you just repeat the dogma and need a breadth requirement, and as majors they work well to get the diversity admits and people giving up on harder classes. They are religious in nature, so for them it’s like they get to not take hard classes and get to be closer to God, only in a perverse way. If it were all true or useful it would be compelling to learn in the same way a devout Christian might major in theology.