Is there too much focus on STEM? (Liberal Arts strikes back)

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Originally Posted by StevenB

Partly in jest and partly serious, I brought up the question during an open forum, "Given that honors engineers have to take six writing and history intensive courses, wouldn't it be appropriate for honors English and history majors to take calculus? [1]"

I think it is a more serious question than jest. The non-STEM majors need to take more science and math courses. It would be be helpful to take 12 of those 60 hours and become a little more broadly educated.

And conversely, it would be helpful for the STEM majors to learn how to write.

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