Middle-Class Families Increasingly Look to Community Colleges

Re:Middle-Class Families Increasingly Look to Community Coll... by harryh on Sunday April 08, 2018 @04:18PM (#16788115)

In college I took:

  * 1 literature class (shakespeare elective)
  * 0 philosophy classes
  * 1 history class (history 101)
  * 0 art classes
  * 2 science classes (physics 1 & 2)

I don't believe these gave me a wide-ranging perspective on these topics. I think my experience is pretty typical for technical majors.

The idea that most students develop this sort of thing in college is pretty clearly a myth.

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Re:Middle-Class Families Increasingly Look to Community Coll... by tnecniv on Sunday April 08, 2018 @09:06PM (#16789497)

I majored in electrical engineering at a good school, and had to take ~8 humanities and social science credits, so that is surprising to me.

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Re:Middle-Class Families Increasingly Look to Community Coll... by harryh on Sunday April 08, 2018 @10:00PM (#16789760)

I went to CMU and majored in ECE (minor in CS). In addition to the above I took a humanities concentration in economics which was 3 classes so that's 5 humanities classes total. I think? I graduated in 2000 so I might be forgetting something, but I don't think so.

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Re:Middle-Class Families Increasingly Look to Community Coll... by bogomipz on Sunday April 08, 2018 @04:51PM (#16788303)

Did you actually believe at some point that taking 0 philosophy and 0 art classes would give you a wide-ranging perspective on those topics?

>"The idea that most students develop this sort of thing in college is pretty clearly a myth."

So based on your own anecdotal experience core curriculum contributing to a well-rounded education is a "myth."

Also the idea isn't that you immediately "develop this sort of thing in college." It's to provide a foundation for thinking about things for the rest of your life.

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