Wayne State University drops math requirement. May replace it with diversity credit.

[Bengalzona]

(06-27-2016, 10:34 AM)Benton Wrote: That's my thinking. At first it sounds like a big deal, but to me it didn't make a lot of sense to have some of the mandated math classes I had in college for a fine art degree. With the career I went into (journalism) the only math is how man inches your story is.

I got an arts degree at a liberal arts college and I was required to take a single math course. The most basic course they offered was an Algebra II class, which I had already taken twice (once in high school and once in the Army to get a transferable credit... which the stupid university didn't accept because of some accreditation differences). So I signed up for this course thinking it should be a cakewalk. Except it wasn't because never showed up to the class, never did my homework and, on the rare occasion I did show up, I slept through the whole class. It was mind-numbingly boring. Then, I got smart. I dropped the stupid class and just tested out of the requirement. 

And today, I'm like, "Why did I put myself through all of that anyway?"