<p>GentlemanandScholar,
All I'm trying to do is make sure that sakky isn't allowed to paint humanities with such a broad brush. He says the following: "The reality is that in many humanities classes, a lot of reading doesn't really matter. The truth is, a lot of students pass the class, and in some cases, get top grades, while doing very little of the assigned reading." I'm trying to point out that in some of the humanities departments with which I have experience, this is not true in the least. It may be true in "many" humanities classes, and I'm not afraid to say, as I already did, that the "Studies" majors are not the most academically demanding. But in many other humanities classes, sakky's complaint does not hold true.</p>