The DCC: New Spring Edition coming soon 3/21! Page 87

Started by Livewire December 20th, 2011 9:04 PM
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Spring Quarter, I'm dropping Math and switching to PoliSci/American Gov class. >.>

Also that's what's been missing in my life lately. Space Nazi's.

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But aren't you required to take math in college?
You... ARE in college, right?
Actually, it depends on your major.

Political Science Majors only have to take Statistics. I'm only taking Life Science Calculus to keep open the possibility of going Pre-Med.

And yes I'm a Uni student as demonstrated by me spending the past 4 hours spamming my FB wall with this stuff rather than getting ready for my Friday's Chem Mid-Term. :B

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Well, I was studying journalism and I got two semesters of Economics, which included somewhat medium-level math, not that it really was anything remarkable after having algebra in high school XD

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Whether your major requires math courses can depend on what college you go to and their "general education" requirements. Some schools require you to take math (and other subjects) even if they're completely unrelated to your major. Some don't. Mine required me (as a math major) to take three semesters of literature even though I still don't see the connection between equations and 18th century authors...

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Silly North American universities with your 'majors' and 'minors' and 'liberal arts' and stuff! :D When you decide to do a degree in something in the UK, you spend 3-4 years studying that thing exclusively. English students only study English; biology students only study biology; history students only study history etc. Saying that, in more science-y degrees (and definitely economics), there might be a need to take one course in mathematics - to help with scientific calculations and such - but there'd be no need to take any arts subject like history or a language course or something.

Saying all of this, I do miss maths, though. It's been 4 years since I've studied it and I miss it so much!

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Yeah, I loved it when I was in school! Nothing like a good differential equation or statistical problem to make the day turn out great. (Although it might read that way, none of the aforementioned was sarcasm. Just in case anyone's confused.)

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Silly North American universities with your 'majors' and 'minors' and 'liberal arts' and stuff! :D When you decide to do a degree in something in the UK, you spend 3-4 years studying that thing exclusively. English students only study English; biology students only study biology; history students only study history etc. Saying that, in more science-y degrees (and definitely economics), there might be a need to take one course in mathematics - to help with scientific calculations and such - but there'd be no need to take any arts subject like history or a language course or something.

Saying all of this, I do miss maths, though. It's been 4 years since I've studied it and I miss it so much!
Well the whole point is to build a well-rounded individual who has interests and knowledge outside of their very specific studies, lol.


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Silly North American universities with your 'majors' and 'minors' and 'liberal arts' and stuff! :D When you decide to do a degree in something in the UK, you spend 3-4 years studying that thing exclusively. English students only study English; biology students only study biology; history students only study history etc. Saying that, in more science-y degrees (and definitely economics), there might be a need to take one course in mathematics - to help with scientific calculations and such - but there'd be no need to take any arts subject like history or a language course or something.

Saying all of this, I do miss maths, though. It's been 4 years since I've studied it and I miss it so much!
This is a huge reason why I dislike most curriculums, and why I dislike schools that have a core curriculum. You spend half your years there primarily studying things you don't need or have nothing to do with your major at all, and the other half studying what you're actually paying them for. It's completely pointless in my opinion. I don't care if it makes you a "well rounded individual" or not. I'm not interested in studying history - if I was interested in studying history, I would've majored in history, not design!! Open curriculums are by far the best. It's my education, I'm the one paying for it. Let me study what I want to study without adding things that you want me to study.

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Lol I'm not that smart.

I agree with Nick though tbh, if only because I have enough varied interests that I would take the electives anyway for most of them, except for history because I have less than 0 interest in history. The US is lucky in that they get the choice to go to a college with a core curriculum or one without though :3


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Well the whole point is to build a well-rounded individual who has interests and knowledge outside of their very specific studies, lol.
But shouldn't that be what school's for, as opposed to university? It's the whole 'breadth vs depth' debate, really. Although in America you guys have to pretty much learn craploads of subjects 'til you leave high school, whereas in the UK if you don't like, say, English or mathematics, you can drop them after 16. (Some subjects you can drop after 14 - like me and geography!) Indeed, A-Levels - the last exams you sit as part of school - are normally just three/four subjects studied exclusively for two years.
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I agree with tourettes

building a well-rounded individual should be a school's priority
of course they should offer you more classes dedicated to what you plan on coursing later but I don't think you should be able to completely forego some subjects because of that (of course if you wanted to major in english you'd have more classes related to that but it shouldn't get rid of all others entirely is what I mean)

I don't think learning about anything is a waste, even if it's not going to help you professionally
increasing your knowledge also increases your spirit! to use patucysiu youtour's case as an example, I think history is actually really important for design -- you can use so many references and find a lot of inspiration in historical events, not to mention art history which is huuuge

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I already dislike some subjects that, despite having something to do with journalism, aren't really related to it, so I can't imagine how I'd feel if I had to study anything related to sciences to become a "well-rounded individual" XD Here in Europe, Universities are for people who want to get specialized in something.

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But shouldn't that be what school's for, as opposed to university? It's the whole 'breadth vs depth' debate, really. Although in America you guys have to pretty much learn craploads of subjects 'til you leave high school, whereas in the UK if you don't like, say, English or mathematics, you can drop them after 16. (Some subjects you can drop after 14 - like me and geography!) Indeed, A-Levels - the last exams you sit as part of school - are normally just three/four subjects studied exclusively for two years.
Well it depends on the school and state. For example my state requires you take 3 years of math but Wisconsin only requires two, so you could drop it after 16 years old (since that usually means you're a sophomore) if you really wanted. Same with science. And then if you go to a more rigorous school like my college prep high school you could be required to take more (my school required all 4 years of math). So some states are stricter than others, and some schools are stricter than others.

And I would say the core often involves things that may not have been an option in high school so they're not really explored fully, like Sociology, Philosophy, Fine Arts, that kind of thing. Usually at least at ND freshmen and sophomores fill up their schedules with the core curriculum so that way if they find an unexpected interest in a subject they never explored in high school they could switch majors, haha.


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I already dislike some subjects that, despite having something to do with journalism, aren't really related to it, so I can't imagine how I'd feel if I had to study anything related to sciences to become a "well-rounded individual" XD Here in Europe, Universities are for people who want to get specialized in something.
I think we're talking about high school though!

if we aren't then disregard my last post; universities are indeed for people who want to get specialized

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