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The study of literature allows us to glimpse universal truths as well as encounter the diversity of human experience in all its
The study of literature allows us to glimpse universal truths as well as encounter the diversity of human experience in all its
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2022-12-09
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问题
The study of literature allows us to glimpse universal truths as well as encounter the diversity of human experience in all its fascinating particularity. With expert guidance, an immersion in great novels, plays and poems can deliver a sense of spiritual headroom and wellbeing which lasts a lifetime.
Such benefits—intangible but very real—were sadly not enough to persuade Sheffield Hallam University to continue to offer a standalone English literature degree to undergraduates. Amid falling demand generally for arts and humanities courses, a university spokesperson this week announced that the course was being suspended. The news prompted an outpouring of frustration from lecturers, and criticism from writers such as James Graham and Philip Pullman. It follows a similar move by the University of Cumbria last year and mounting cuts to humanities provision elsewhere. In May, recruitment for all performing arts courses at the University of Wolverhampton was suspended.
This depressing trend is part of a wider pattern. It is understandable that young people from lower-income backgrounds, contemplating a working career shadowed by debt and punitive interest rates, might think twice about taking a non-vocational course. Applications for English studies, including English literature, have fallen steadily since 2012, when the cap on tuition fees was lifted to £9,000. There have also been drop-offs in other humanities subjects.
Anxious that as many graduates as possible pay off their loans—for which the Treasury is ultimately on the hook—the government has focused on the virtues of Stem subjects (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). Meanwhile, supposedly "
dead end
" university courses—those which fail to deliver an instant graduate premium in the job market—are coming under increasingly aggressive scrutiny. This year, the Office for Students set out plans to remove funding for "low quality" courses, defined as those where less than 60% of participants go into good jobs or further study soon after graduating.
The overall approach is both wrong-headed and shortsighted. As Mr Graham points out, the arts and entertainment industry has become one of the few booming areas of the economy in which Britain can claim to be world-leading. Narrowing the humanities talent pool to a privileged subset of students will, in this sense, be self-defeating. More fundamentally, it will radically shrink the cultural horizons and options of those outside that elite group.
After a decade of marketisation, a grimly utilitarian worldview is beginning to exercise a suffocating chokehold over much of England’s higher education sector. But the intrinsic quality and worth of a course cannot be fairly judged by reference to employment statistics and labour market outcomes. Sheffield Hallam’s decision must be a wake-up call for those concerned to preserve the future of the arts and humanities in our universities.
"Dead end" university courses refer to the ones which________.
选项
A、are always under aggressive scrutiny
B、are taken by less than 60% of students
C、are unlikely to bring immediate results
D、are proved less popular than Stem courses
答案
C
解析
细节题。根据题干中的“Dead end’’可定位至第四段。第二句说supposedly "dead end" university courses—those which fail to deliver an instant graduate premium in the job market (所谓的“死胡同”大学课程——那些不能在就业市场上立即为毕业生带来好处的课程),C项中的unlikely to bring immediate results为原文fail to deliver all instant graduate premium的同义改写,故C项正确。A项属于以偏概全,第二句说所谓的“死胡同”大学课程正受到越来越严厉的审查,但原文说的是现在的情况,未提到是否总是如此,故排除该选项。B项属于张冠李戴,最后一句说的是“低质量”课程的情况,而非“死胡同”大学课程,故排除。D项属于主观臆断,第一句说政府把重点放在了Stem科目上,但我们无法由政府扶持Stem课程推出这些课程是否受欢迎,故排除。故本题答案为C项。
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