Spud of Doom said:
Sonic Doctor said:
30%, and that percentage looks to be growing, of your college classes will have nothing to do with your major.
This doesn't sound right to me. I'm currently in my fourth year at university and I have only done 1 paper (1 of 4 that semester) which wasn't directly related to my degree; and that was an optional one that I elected to do. I could have chosen to just do 3 papers that semester.
You must have some awesome universities down in
Australia New Zealand(Saw a small Union Jack and just guessed Australia). Granted you probably aren't an English Major, but wow you've only had to write four papers. As I said it took me six years to get my degree, so twelve semesters and I must have written at least 20 papers each semester, considering most of my English classes I had to write at least 4 to 6 for each, around 30 pages of writing for each class. The only non-English classes I remember having to write papers for were my history classes.
But that's off track anyway, I said nothing about papers in my post. I was talking about classes. Did you even read what I said about classes? I even said "classes" in the part of my post you quoted.
I'll reiterate:
I was an English Major, besides Englsih(literature and writing classes) I had to take(bear in mind that these have nothing to do with English):
Three math classes(forgot to say before I had to retake one because when I transferred schools after graduating from the two year university, the new university made me take a stupid competency test and I tested back into the same math class I had just passed before graduating, so I had to take it again to fulfill the core curriculum), two lab sciences, two history classes(American and World), psychology, sociology, philosophy, a basic humanities class(basically an art study, discussion, and history class), and finally a health class and gym class combo(I took weightlifting alongside the health class).
If I'm remembering correctly on how many credits each of those classes was worth, that's 42 credit hours. Now add that to the 124 credit hours I had to take for my English Major, that is 166, now divide 42 by that and you get 25.3%. So in the end, I exaggerated a little, but still that is 25% of the classes I had to take, that didn't have anything to do with furthering my English degree learning. If anything other than a waste of time, it filled my head with unimportant information that distracted me and took valuable brain power from working on my English studies.
And as I said before, I'm glad I didn't go ahead with the Creative Writing degree like I really wanted to, because then I would have had to take four semesters of a foreign language, because Creative Writing is an "of Arts" degree. Those foreign language classes would have been even more useless than the useless "core" curriculum classes I had to take.
Universities in the US, curriculum-wise, have become an exercise in basically going to high school a second time with some extra classes that you want to take for your field added on. Going to a university use to be about students honing their skills in only one area that interested them, because that is what they wanted to do with their lives. Society, at least in the US has become a place where people have to know a good deal about everything and a little more in one area, instead of what it should be; a place where people are specialized in just one thing and if they don't know something they leave it to the people that do know it to do it for them.