{"id":13517,"date":"2024-11-24T17:35:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T00:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13517"},"modified":"2024-12-07T17:37:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T00:37:57","slug":"no-mo-brit-lit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/11\/24\/no-mo-brit-lit\/","title":{"rendered":"No Mo&#8217; Brit Lit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2024\/11\/05\/university-scraps-english-literature-degree-not-viable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Telegraph<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">University scraps English literature degree as \u2018no longer viable\u2019<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Canterbury Christ Church University blames a decline in applicants as it drops the subject for new students<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/content\/dam\/news\/2024\/11\/05\/TELEMMGLPICT000227966194_17308299151530_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqRL5GJiDC4zHr_Ic_kNcsf_PtR7dBWK0-STmP8sWUyho.jpeg?imwidth=350\" alt=\"The pilgrims sit around a circular table in a naive illustration\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>A 1483 woodcut shows Chaucer\u2019s pilgrims en route to Canterbury<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/canterbury-christ-church-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Canterbury Christ Church University<\/a>\u00a0is scrapping English literature degrees because of a decline in applicants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The university, based in Kent, said the course was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2022\/06\/26\/english-literature-course-suspended-university-poor-job-return\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">no longer viable in the current climate<\/a>\u201d and would not be offered from September 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canterbury has a played a significant role in the history of English literature, in Geoffrey Chaucer\u2019s The Canterbury Tales and as the birthplace of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/books\/authors\/christopher-marlowe-theatre-poet-shakespeare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Christopher Marlowe<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/women\/life\/aphra-behn-spy-trailblazer-grandmother-english-literature\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Aphra Behn<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students in their first or second year will be able to finish their degree and those completing a foundation year will be given the chance to switch to alternative courses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2024\/11\/05\/university-scraps-english-literature-degree-not-viable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Telegraph<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Telegraph University scraps English literature degree as \u2018no longer viable\u2019 Canterbury Christ Church University blames a decline in applicants as it drops the subject for new students Canterbury Christ Church University\u00a0is scrapping English literature degrees because of a decline in applicants. The university, based in Kent, said the course was \u201cno longer viable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}