Re:College-educated workers are taking over the American fac...
by hogFeast on Monday December 09, 2019 @06:01PM
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> STEM majors regularly complain, loudly, about the fuzziness of the classes that teach those skills.
It is easier, for some people, to be precisely wrong rather than roughly correct.
I agree generally that most universities are bad at producing students who can think for themselves (to be clear, my reference was to Scottish universities that do a four-year degree versus three-year in England). You don't need any extra classes though. Just create classes that test for this and doing classes from other areas will probably help to. Also, clearly, universities try to create courses in a way that limits complaining from students and makes it all about grades...which isn't helpful.
It is easier, for some people, to be precisely wrong rather than roughly correct.
I agree generally that most universities are bad at producing students who can think for themselves (to be clear, my reference was to Scottish universities that do a four-year degree versus three-year in England). You don't need any extra classes though. Just create classes that test for this and doing classes from other areas will probably help to. Also, clearly, universities try to create courses in a way that limits complaining from students and makes it all about grades...which isn't helpful.