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comment by ButterflyEffect
ButterflyEffect  ·  4356 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Folly of the College Credit Hour

I agree with this, what I dislike is how some of the requirements are defined. I don't believe that a student should be forced to take x number of humanities courses, along with y number of arts of expression courses. I think the system would be better served having a requirement for general education, but not defining the subjects that must be taken. Allow the student to explore his/her interests. I have taken some very useful and interesting courses, but have also taken some worthless ones due to being forced to choose between a narrow selection to complete some requirements.





mk  ·  4355 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I agree that a program like that would probably work well. Require someone to learn outside their major, but give them the freedom to focus on a limited number of other things that interest them.