What is the ultimate 21st Century degree?

noimagination
Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:37:00 +0000

we’re talking about how employment overseas in government or business would require a knowledge of local language and culture.

Look, I buy this argument to the extent that an applicant with knowledge of language/culture would be chosen over another with roughly equal qualifications otherwise. In other words, an engineer who speaks Russian and took a course in Slavic history might be chosen over another engineer who has done neither. However, a Russian Studies major still can’t do the engineer’s job. What exactly is the Russian Studies major hired to do?