college requirements / liberal arts
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In a message dated 1/29/03 9:28:39 AM, shyrley.williams@... writes:
<< Why would a university make you take courses that were irrelevant to your
degree?
It would be like my neuroscience degree asking for a couple of courses in
fine art and English litereature! >>
Seeing as how there are 170 unread pieces of mail in my queue (not counting
what came in in the past hour), this might all have been answered, but here
is the answer:
Liberal Arts
Universities don't want to have graduates who are ignorant. So a tech school
degree can be very limited to just what you need to be a welder or a
glassblower of scientific tubes and special beakers, or a repairer of one
particular brand of cash register. But a neurosurgeon has a university
degree, and in the U.S. that's probably going to mean English literature.
When I went to UNM I slid through in a lax season (following the Viet Nam war
protests in which a student was bayonetted by the national guard and many
were tear gassed, and the semester ended abruptly a week before finals), and
wasn't required to take a foreign language nor math.
The requirements were raised the year after I left.
So I have 'college lite' (though I had enough credits for three full minors,
so it wasn't numbers, it was hoops-not-jumped).
Brits are different. They think they invented it or something. (But I think
probably the French beat them to it <g>.)
Sandra
<< Why would a university make you take courses that were irrelevant to your
degree?
It would be like my neuroscience degree asking for a couple of courses in
fine art and English litereature! >>
Seeing as how there are 170 unread pieces of mail in my queue (not counting
what came in in the past hour), this might all have been answered, but here
is the answer:
Liberal Arts
Universities don't want to have graduates who are ignorant. So a tech school
degree can be very limited to just what you need to be a welder or a
glassblower of scientific tubes and special beakers, or a repairer of one
particular brand of cash register. But a neurosurgeon has a university
degree, and in the U.S. that's probably going to mean English literature.
When I went to UNM I slid through in a lax season (following the Viet Nam war
protests in which a student was bayonetted by the national guard and many
were tear gassed, and the semester ended abruptly a week before finals), and
wasn't required to take a foreign language nor math.
The requirements were raised the year after I left.
So I have 'college lite' (though I had enough credits for three full minors,
so it wasn't numbers, it was hoops-not-jumped).
Brits are different. They think they invented it or something. (But I think
probably the French beat them to it <g>.)
Sandra
Bill and Diane
My dh nearly didn't get his BS in physics due to poor spelling (in the
early '80's). At the time in California, you had to pass an essay exam
(handwritten, of course, no spell-check) and didn't pass it due to
spelling. It cost him an extra semester to retake it, and could well
have cost him the degree.
:-) Diane
early '80's). At the time in California, you had to pass an essay exam
(handwritten, of course, no spell-check) and didn't pass it due to
spelling. It cost him an extra semester to retake it, and could well
have cost him the degree.
:-) Diane
><< Why would a university make you take courses that were irrelevant to your
>degree?
>It would be like my neuroscience degree asking for a couple of courses in
>fine art and English litereature! >>
>