Comment by giantDinosaur

Let's be honest: the quality of humanities degrees in Australia is bad. Could they be good, and challenging, and actually useful? Of course - but I doubt you get this anywhere in Australia for undergrad. The bad thing here isn't the doubling of fees for mostly useless (and I mean intellectually useless - I couldn't care less if something isn't really directly relevant to a job) majors - it's the state of those majors in the first place. It pains me to see the lack of real rigorous and critical thinking present in undergrad classes, and the assessments are often a joke.