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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I took Sociology 101 as an elective. I remember nothing from it. No substance to it at all.[/quote]

I don’t remember anything from any 101 level class that I’ve ever taken. I went to a t10 university too. It was all intro and boring.[/quote]

A big failure of so many introductory courses is that even though they are often the only course in that subject many students take, they are more drudgery than engaging.

I loved a geography course I took in the eighties. They didn't use a textbook, and the professors mostly just talked about their research.  We read articles and did a few excercises. There were probably gaps in my readiness for GEOG 201, but who cares? I was never going to take that.[/quote]

Harvard used to fight this problem by having Core Curriculum courses that were deep dive NOT intro survey courses (like the SMACS magent does for  high school), meant to give the experience of being a major in the field. Professors had to apply for approval to have their courses included in the Core Curriculum as options for the distribution requirement.

But eventually they just gave up, probably because they know all their students just want to be bankers. [/quote]

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