What are Medieval Studies?

I am working on getting a B. S. in History and have the eventual desire to gain an M. A. In English Studies. That said I also desire to gain education through a Medieval Studies Program.
 Sometimes I am asked what job can one get through schooling in Medieval Studies? Before I answer this, let me briefly state what Medieval Studies is.
 Medieval Studies is not on it's own a degree one gets in college. It is usually offered in this country only at the graduate level as concerns gaining a degree. To enter a Medieval Studies Program, one must be getting a master's degree in a related field while also mastering in a field of a Medieval subject. In other words, if you master in history, then you can also master in medieval history, if you master in art, you can master also master in Medieval Art, if you master in Philosophy, you can also master in Medieval Philosophy, and you if you master in English, you can master in Medieval Literature. The last one is closest to what J. R. Tolkien got at Oxford University, and what C. S. Lewis later taught at Cambridge University. So in brief, you have a normal degree plus one you get in Medieval Studies. That should enough job security for one.
 Medieval History is the study of key historical few events and the world around them: The Crusades, the Hundred Years War, the Black Death, just to name a few.
 Medieval Literature is the study of all written works from the Middle Ages, both historical, as well as those of stories. These include the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, again just to name a few.
 Medieval Art is the study of paintings etc. from that time.
 Medieval Philosophy is the study of the theological minds of Saint Augustine of Hippo, Saint Anselm of Canterbury, Saint Thomas Aquinas, and many more.
 J. R. R. Tolkien taught Anglo-Saxon, something that is heavily influential in his Middle Works.
 C. S. Lewis was actually not a Medievalist by profession for most of his life. He taught English Literature at Oxford University until 1954 when Cambridge University promoted him to the head of Medieval and Renaissance Literature there. Lewis also wrote several books on Medieval Literature.
 To enter a program one must have fluent knowledge in Medieval Latin. There are currently only four colleges in TN that provide it: The University of TN, Maryville College, University of the South, and Middle TN State University. Of these only UT and University of the South give a major in it, while I think UT is also the only one that gives it at the graduate level, though I am not sure about that.
 Here at the University of TN there are currently only 25 students at best that are in the Medieval Studies Programs.
 A good friend has informed me that all the Medieval Studies in this country are currently at liberal universities, which is unfortunate. That said, I still desire to be a Medievalist by profession.
 I am currently reading Medieval Studies an Introduction by James W. Powell. It gives an overview of many things a Medievalist would learn in college.

 All that said, here is a little more information on Medieval Studies. I am excerpting this from A handbook to Literature by William Harmon and Hugh Holman, 10th edition:
 Medievalism, A spirit of sympathy for the Middle Ages along with a desire to preserve or revive certain qualities of Medieval life. Traces can be found as early as Spenser and throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with their more or less amateur interest in antiquities. It was nineteenth century romanticism , however, that sponsored the most robust flourishing of Medievalism, the development of which was aided by increasingly accurate scholarship, along with a growing respect for the Roman Catholic unity of pre-Reformation Europe. One or more elements of Medievalism can be found in Scot, Byron, Keats, Tennyson, the Pre-Raphaelites, Ruskin, Morris, Poe, Henry Adams, Newman, Hardy, Hopkins, and such more recent figures as E. A. Robinson, C. M. Doughty, T. E. Lawrence, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, David Jones, and a host of writers of fantasy and science fiction. Mark Twain was the chief enemy of medievalism in the late nineteenth century.  He attacked it indirectly { by using Walter Scott as the name of a wrecked steamboat in Huckleberry Finn} and directly throughout A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court.



 Medieval Studies was thus largely a movement that came out of the nineteenth century. The Study of Medieval times through this program is currently being threatened however, by the lack of knowledge of most people today of classical languages that is necessary to be a Medievalist.
 It has been said that some of the greatest works ever written were from the nineteenth century. Sir Walter Scott's Ivanoe and the Talisman no doubt glorify Medieval chivalry.
 I personally fine Jane Austin's novels to have a very Medieval tone. The courtship, the patriarchy, the chivalry, that Austin promotes, so reflects the 19th century novel that she so often wrote.
 My desire is to get my B. S. In History, and gain an M. A. in English Literature, with an M. A. in Medieval Literature.
 The arts for many years have been taken over far too long by leftist. A lot of people seem to forget that many of the greatest writers were actually conservative: Chaucer, Shakespeare, Austin, just to name a few. That is course another topic though, for another time...
 I find it particularity interesting that every year the humanities in colleges are losing more students. Less people are going for History or English than ever.  More and more in college, are going for the sciences, to be engineers, nurses, etc. Electronics have for so many people replaced the reading of books. Social media has now become people's leisure rather than dancing outside with other people during festivals or writing poetry. More people now would rather watch a movie than read a book.    It seems the arts are facing a slow setback among college education in the modern world.