New Blog Series: Things My English Degree Taught Me

In light of my previous blog post: ‘My English degree helped me learn about Canada’s not-so-rosy racial history’, I’ve decided to create a blog category dedicated to revisiting and exploring some of the things that my degree taught me. I want to do this for a number of reasons:

1. To celebrate how an English literature degree, which many see as niche and not rooted in reality, taught me about so many national and global topics, therefore expanding my worldview and understanding of current, and historical, political and social issues.

2. To help me remember many of the valuable things that I learned before they become too distant in my memory.

3. To allow me to work through and uncover the value of my degree in different contexts in light of upcoming master’s degree application deadlines. I am considering non-English subjects, so I need to be able to present the things I learned as valuable outside that discipline (as I know they are).

4. I really enjoyed my degree, and I’m looking forward to revisiting the parts that I found most interesting.

I hope that this new series communicates the diversity of knowledge that English degrees can offer, and shows that they do have a place in real-world issues – politically, economically, socially, and culturally.

This new series will appear in the Categories section of my blog page.