[New-Poetry] MFA mythbusting

[jforjames at aol.com]

I don't follow these issues closely, but isn't the job picture equally bleak for PhDs in English and the other Humanities?
 
The New York Times (yesterday) ran a piece on the overproduction of JDs and problem recently minted lawyers (even from top schools) are having landing work in the field.


Finnegan


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From: Catherine Daly <c.a.b.daly at gmail.com>
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just because MFA programs outnumber PhD programs, in number, growth, and size, doesn't mean they are meaningfully considered to be terminal degrees 


On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 1:27 PM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

Seth Abramson.
Posted: December 26, 2010 
Six More Myths About the Creative Writing Master of Fine Arts 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/seth-abramson/six-more-myths-about-the-_b_801402.html


 

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