Comment by baiwl
I don’t understand this thing you do in the US of forcing you to do completely unrelated courses. You want to study computers and they put you through liberal arts or gender studies bullshit that is basically worthless. Why?
I don’t understand this thing you do in the US of forcing you to do completely unrelated courses. You want to study computers and they put you through liberal arts or gender studies bullshit that is basically worthless. Why?
What’s telling is they don’t make the liberal arts student take any hard science electives.
It would be nice if you could elaborate - I'm here to learn.
> It would be nice if you could elaborate
To elaborate, you made a wildly false claim with no supporting documentation, such as links to undergraduate degree requirements from universities. These two go hand-in-hand: there wouldn't be documentation to support wildly false claims, just to refute them. But I'm not going to do your work for you, because your claim was both wildly false and also lazy. You made the claim, so the burden of proof is on you to support it.
> I'm here to learn.
That appears dubious, given the content of your previous comment.
I stand corrected, its not what my country's universities do.
But the thought of a theology student being forced to pass a course in evolutionary biology has made my day.
> I don’t understand this thing you do in the US of forcing you to do completely unrelated courses.
The framework for the current curriculum was developed when maybe 2% of the country went to college. The curriculum was meant to be broad, and it was meant to teach people how to think. It was not designed to train the students to do a specific job other than “lead” or “go to grad school and specialize”.
And the high school curriculum is just as bad. It was designed for a time when 4% of a cohort went to high school. Half of those went to a 4-year school and the other half went to 2-year schools. The other 96% didn’t go to high school. That’s why we have some oddities like required 4 years of literature in high school. Nothing wrong with literature, but it’s not really appropriate (at least as currently taught) for a mass audience, imho.