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I don't really see any problem with those as electives, rather than core math classes. An upperclassman in a humanities major might take one of those, and get s
by jonhendry 16y ago
I don't really see any problem with those as electives, rather than core math classes. An upperclassman in a humanities major might take one of those, and get some value out of it.
- tptacek 16y agoI agree; they sound like interesting English courses. They're very David Foster Wallace-y. They also look like good examples of "courses liberal arts students take to evade math requirements".
- jonhendry 16y agoAnother way to look at it is "a math class they'll be able to use, rather than a math class they won't use".
- tptacek 16y agoI tend to agree with the guy from the TED talk posted a few weeks ago who believes that right now, all our basic maths courses build towards calculus, and that's a waste since most people never use it, and the right fix is to refocus on statistics.