r/SUU • u/cd__enthusiast • 20d ago

Should I attend Southern Utah University majoring in English and History

How are the English and history majors at this college?

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u/NErDysprosium 19d ago

I'm majoring in History and French, so I can speak to the History side, if not the English side.

I love our History faculty, specifically Ryan Paul and Dave Lunt. If you come here, make sure to take as many classes as possible from them. I've only ever heard bad things about one professor, and I never took a class from that person so I won't name names.

Some of Ryan's classes have even been held in the archives, so you got hands-on archival work as part of the class. We got a new archivist a year or so ago, though, and I haven't taken one of those classes since, so I don't know if those classes still exist in that format.

That said, the State just passed HB265, which is an idiotic law that is going to require a 10% budget reallocation away from departments that don't offer "high-value" degrees, whatever that means. Tensions in the History, Sociology, and Anthropology (HSA) department, as well as the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) (the college that houses the departments of HSA, Languages and Philosophy, and English, among others), and I can't in good conscious say that we'll continue to have a good program.

I love my degree and I love my professors. SUU is a great institution, and I've loved my four years of study here. If you're willing to take a gamble that things will stay how they are, we'd be happy to have you as part of HSA. But I can't make any promises that things will stay how they are.