03-08-2016, 03:26 PM
(03-08-2016, 02:40 PM)JustWinBaby Wrote: The "well-rounded' liberal arts education is such a load of bunk. Technically my program was liberal arts, or a liberal art foundation, and most of those classes were useless and forgettable. You don't need to be mandated to take a class to "enrich" yourself when you can get pretty much the same thing for reading the book on your own.
What you want to advocate is not actual classes or majors in liberal arts, but to incorporate that "worldly" perspective and critical thinking into all courses. Many opportunities to cover largely the same material/concepts in a class focused on functional learning like econ, business, marketing, law, management, even engineering. It's even better because it's a real world application of that learning rather than some soft philosophical BS.
But why give all that to you in one class when the college can charge you for 2 or 3?
If you bring up liberal arts questions in engineering class you are just derailing the main message.
I actually agree with you on a certain level, buut a well rounded education is definitely not "a load of bunk". A big part of cost control in education should be cutting back on the what is required to get a degree, but I don't agree with requiring teachers from other fields to somehow teach multiple courses at one time.
Obviously marketing and business classes require at least some knowledge in sociology, history, and psychology. You have to understand the world to be successful in the world. But that does not mean business and marketing professors should be trying to explain complex sociological theories. When marketing professors need to use history in their classes they need to know that the students all have a knowledge of history.
