[Novalug] [OT] The farce of the cost of college
Bonnie Dalzell
bdalzell@qis.net
Mon Jun 8 12:24:34 EDT 2015
On Sun, 7 Jun 2015, Roy Wilson via Novalug wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Bryan J Smith via Novalug <
> novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:
>
> Definitely the best way to avoid the "weed out" classes that dominate the
>> Florida SUS just to reduce enrollment for the next, incoming class.
>
>
> I'd rather see the "weed out the idiots" classes removed and replaced with
> a simple test-in procedure.
>
> What bothers me more is the selection of "mandatory optional" classes
> needed to get a degree. I had to take two years of "Romantic Poets" back
> in the eighties for an engineering degree. Along with various gym and the
> equivalent of underwater basket weaving.
>
[Really OT] Did you ever have the nightmare about them taking away your
degree because you failed gym?
I had to get "humanities" courses and "social sciences" courses. Part of
the latter could be satisified by exam.
However one of the "social sciences" courses I took turned out to be one
of the best courses I had at the university. It was called "Man and
Natural Resources" and was a course through the Geography department
taught by a retired petroleum engineer named Daniel Lutens.
He taught a scientific approach to evaluating the impact of mankind on our
planet which has stayed with me ever since. Without the need for the
"breadth requirement" I would not have taken this course.
I satisified my "humanities" breadth requirement by taking three semesters
of symbolic logic through the philosophy department. That turned out to
be useful when I became addicted to computers. Also I had several
semesters of a series of courses about the paitings on Ancient Greek
Pottery which turned out to be as much about archeology as about art. so
I enjoyed that also.
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