Option to choose? Yes, in some cases, but there are certain requirements for different degrees that do not leave you any choice. For example, I had no choice but to take 4 English Literature classes. Now English composition is something I consider important, and some knowledge of English Literature might be good, but poetry??? How many remember a poem that ends:
by Robert Frost?
The professor was asking students what they thought Frost's meaning was. It's been suggested that it was a suicidal thought. Unfortunately, the professor eventually got around to asking me what I thought Frost meant. I said, "Well, you know by the time he wrote that poem, he was well enough known that anything he wrote would be published, so I can't help but wonder if he had a sense of humor, and thought 'Just wait until some English professor tries to explain this nonsense a hundred years from now'" The professor just shook his head and turned away.:laughing: I asked him, "What practical use will any of us ever have for this poetry?" He didn't have an answer. But a couple of years later, when I graduated, he was on the stage helping hand out diplomas and shaking hands, and when I got to him, he whispered, "I still don't know what practical use you'll ever have for poetry.":laughing:
I guess you know that definitely applies to law degrees. Lawyers don't know much law; there are too many laws for that, so they just learn how and where to research both statutory and case law.
