
A university literally named after George Washington and located in the nation's capital
just dropped its requirement
for American history, for history majors. In order to graduate with a
history degree from George Washington University (GW) in Washington,
D.C., you do not have to study American history.
To
make matters worse, the department said they made this stunning
decision in order to kowtow to current trends and make history more
popular. This change comes among other updates to the curriculum:
history majors will no longer be required to take foreign language
classes, can do an electronic capstone project instead of the
traditional thesis, and will not have to study European, North American,
or U.S. history.
"I think
the main gain for students is that they have a great deal more
flexibility than they had before, and they can adapt it to whatever
their plans are for the future," Katrin Schultheiss, chair of the
history department,
told The GW Hatchet. "Whatever they want to do, there's a way to make the history department work for them."
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