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One thing that bothers me is that fact that STEM degrees are consistently more difficult. Sure, there's a lot to learn, and the amount has increased as we've mo
by nitwit005 9y ago
One thing that bothers me is that fact that STEM degrees are consistently more difficult. Sure, there's a lot to learn, and the amount has increased as we've moved forward, but the same should be true of an English major. There has been an explosion of writing and more than ever to learn about.
It feels like we must be letting the liberal arts majors down by setting lower expectations.
- hrktb 9y agoExpectations are in relation with the money involved. Even in engineering for instance, mechanical engineering was way more strict and difficult than CS, as screwing up industrial machines or physical artifacts (at school and on the job) had a bigger impact than bugs in a CRUD app. I think as long as the English course is not directly linked to an activity that costs to screw up, (like law school for instance) expectations won’t change.
- nitwit005 9y agoThat's true in the case of English, but some of the "easy" majors tend to include things like business and teaching, where you directly get responsibility for other people. If the knowledge has value, we should be trying to cram it in, but we don't.