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It would be interesting to compose your own 'major' program out of smaller granularity subject modules. So e.g. if one were interested in majoring in robotics,
by digikata 11y ago
It would be interesting to compose your own 'major' program out of smaller granularity subject modules. So e.g. if one were interested in majoring in robotics, you could assemble a study program of something like basic CS, basic MechE, basic EE, then stack some other intermediate level subjects modules on top... Controls, Visual processing, etc...
- kedean 11y agoInteresting, but maybe not all that useful. The purpose of a major is to give others an implicit idea of what you studied. If I say I have a major in Robotics, then everyone can infer what that consisted of, even if it varies across universities (in which case that knowledge usually disseminates). What happens when I say I majored in robotics, but I failed to actually include anything on the hardware side of it and only really studied AI and control algorithms?
- digikata 11y agoA company hiring someone out of this new kind of university would look at projects the student worked on as well as their subject modules. But large projects can get fuzzy as to what the specific contributions might be, and the subject modules then give you an idea of that candidates background skill spread. So if the company were looking for someone in robotics for more of the software side, then it would be apparent from the studied modules that they might be a good fit. But more than that, it would give universities a model to continue creating a range of advanced or specialized subject modules. This would allow students or employees to come back and pickup new subject modules in a more integrated way to how the whole university operates.
- st3v3r 11y agoUnless it becomes the norm, what's more likely is that they'd just ignore people from that university unless they had a good reason not to.