Proceedings Start Against ‘Sokal Squared’ Hoax Professor

Re:Proceedings Start Against ‘Sokal Squared’ Hoax Professor by whatshisface on Sunday January 13, 2019 @08:18PM (#18899859)

>If you make every subject as rigorous as math or physics, the resulting workload will be crushing. And not everybody who gets a degree needs to be such a rigorous thinker, to make a valuable contribution to society.

You could have a course that was neither rigorous nor ideologically biased, in fact every department could have them. I dream of an alternate universe (which one day could be ours) where instead of "You get an A but you have to pretend to agree with the professor 101," we could have, "the X department runs through their favorite material, but skips all of the really tedious parts that you would have to learn if you wanted to contribute, but as a spectator could go without."

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Re:Proceedings Start Against ‘Sokal Squared’ Hoax Professor by analog31 on Sunday January 13, 2019 @08:51PM (#18900016)

A lot of colleges have an option to "audit" a course. My own experience was that in spectator mode, I didn't really learn anything, because courses had a "learn by doing" aspect that was pretty valuable for me. Also, courses I was taking for a grade always got priority for study time.

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Re:Proceedings Start Against ‘Sokal Squared’ Hoax Professor by aaronblohowiak on Monday January 14, 2019 @01:57AM (#18901177)

At Drexel, they had “physics for designers”, which is roughly what you describe.

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