A college degree is damn near required for people to get decent jobs in the fields of their choosing, but why must the engineering student to take art and art history classes?
There isn't a student who I have met who has cared one bit about a forced gen Ed. Sure there are students who love courses like creative writing or art history or mythology and will take those courses. Sometimes this is to learn more, usually it's because they already know a lot on the subject and want the gpa boost.
A GPA that is most likely suffering due to being over worked. In the expanding fields of science, technology, engineering, and medicine the workloads for the major alone is enough to consume a person's life for those years. Add to this a mandatory history class, political science, 2 arts, 3 levels of a foreign language, and they can run out of the free time that keeps them sane. This isn't an exaggeration, about one in four students will develop either depression or an anxiety disorder during their time at a university and the removal of gen Ed requirements would alleviate some unneeded stress.
With the internet as it is now university is little more than a trade school that sounds more impressive on a resume and forces extra, pointless work on the students. Anyone with an interest in any subject is capable of using search engines to find any information they want. Before the internet was as accessible as it is now universities required these classes in order to make you a rounded and educated individual, but now everyone has the sum total of human knowledge and research at their fingertips. General education in a university is obsolete and best case scenario these students study for a test and forget it or worst case fosters a genuine resentment for the subject by the students.
Submitted December 06, 2016 at 10:39AM by Robodingo http://ift.tt/2h3qCkk
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