03-08-2016, 05:11 PM
(03-08-2016, 04:51 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: But seriously, didn't know calculus was the solution? I don't know if that's a failure on teaching, liberal arts education, or just basic knowledge.
Oh, I did. And I'm sure a few others in the class did as well. But the loud groans were pretty evident most didn't know.
That's just one example. Most liberal arts cores are a broad survey, and truthfully you won't have enough of a foundation to do what is intended with that course/topic until after at least 3-4 semesters.
If there's not an actual sequence of courses - which is pretty much every Liberal Arts core - it's useless. It's merely exposing you to the ideas, which you will get just as much from a book in most cases.
Heck, I was perusing Univ IL core reqs, and thought 4 semesters of a foreign language was pretty good, at first. I did 3, and my Spanish didn't get any better. If you want to learn a foreign language - which is a good idea - maybe you're better off with a program like Rosetta Stone. Or something more challenging/immersive than what you get in a college semester.
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