03-08-2016, 03:43 PM
(03-08-2016, 03:26 PM)fredtoast Wrote: 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.
Indeed. Ideally, you would have classes laying the foundations for these things before the students start taking their majors. Then, when the student is in their marketing class and there is something related to a sociological principle the professor knows that they should have that foundation.
