22-05-2011, 12:34
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6th Gear Developer; Mentor
AKA: Blake Ross
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Join Date: May 2006
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Location: Virginia
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Re: Is there too much focus on STEM? (Liberal Arts strikes back)
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Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto
... There are 60 required units for an english major. UC Davis requires 180 to graduate, but that means 120 units can be whatever you want! ... it takes 4 years just to teach the advanced concepts that we need to know to be reasonably effective engineers.
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Taking these thoughts in a slightly different direction:
It would be interesting to spend a little time investigating whether it takes more than 60 credits of focused study to become an effective English bachelor's degree graduate. Perhaps the STEM "crisis" is accompanied by a similarly important weakening of the value of a typical liberal arts education?
It's as plain as the nose on your face that the vast majority of college graduates (engineers included) don't know enough about English grammar and vocabulary to use both properly. Perhaps we (North America) need to ratchet up the challenges a liberal arts student must master? and thereby raise the value of a liberal arts bachelor's degree?
Blake
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Last edited by gblake : 22-05-2011 at 14:38.
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