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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not talking about elite institutions like Yale or Columbia where the breadth requirements are part of a curated humanistic curriculum.

But it seems at say, UMCP or Penn State, a lot of time is spent on these requirements, more than a third of the degree in the arts and sciences.  I can see the merit, but in practice it seems to lean to a lot of undisciplined and unfocused learning.  In a lot of ways it's like high school again - take your English, take your math, take your foreign language, take your gym etc.  In fact the gen-ed requirements are often more extensive than the major to which students are only devoting about 30% of the degree to.

Maybe this is why in a lot of countries the bachelor's degree is 3 years because gen-ed is mainly an American thing.[/quote]

I'm all for social science requirements if they are part of a rigorous humanities curriculum of specific classes that are required, no options; and not just searching to see which useless class is the easy A. Similarly, everyone should have to take a set of science/math classes at the "general" level and not some watered down classes like "Algebra for non-majors." Americans have become a bunch of idiots who have learned nothing in high school, and college has become much of the same for many students at most schools. Ignorance is becoming so rampant that we may need to institute a basic fact-based intelligence test before voting.[/quote]

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