03-08-2016, 04:38 PM
(03-08-2016, 03:00 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: The problem is that the professors of those classes that are considered to be more "practical" aren't willing to include these things in their classes. I've seen discussions like this play out time and time again where the professors aren't willing to take the time in their course to go over that sort of material.
That's where supplemental materials come in. Not a lot of time needs to be spent on explaining, say, branding or marketing with respect to cultural differences.
It's easier and more efficient to be done than people realize, those professors are just being lazy. My best professors didn't teach the text - you were expected to read and know it. A lot of what we are talking here is reference material, and it's a matter of finding texts or supplemental materials that incorporate that address the relevant background info. Essentially the Harvard case method which, by the way, can be adapted to almost any course.
Take a business ethics class and you can't avoid some discussing some of the background material. Even at a liberal arts school, one person took Woman Studies while another took African American studies, and that doesn't make them particular more learned with respect to most topics than the student who took neither course.
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