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What CS university programs make you write essays?

• vkou 6y ago
  Ones offered by legitimate universities, that require bachelors to take ~12-18 credit hours of liberal arts courses. Those courses typically require you to submit essays, which will be evaluated for both their form, and their function. Given the generally poor grasp of civics, ethics, and ability to relate to other cultures that I have seen, if the job of a university is the creation of educated people (as opposed to vocational training), more liberal arts education can't go that amiss. You're also missing the main thrust of my argument. My university offered - and required - CS majors to take a number of practical, vocational courses, with many programming assignments. But it never actually took the time to train, or grade us on the quality of our solutions to those assignments. This is not how real engineers, chemists, or physicists, or folks studying bioscience get trained.
  • bonoboTP 6y ago
    > Ones offered by legitimate universities, that require bachelors to take ~12-18 credit hours of liberal arts courses. I see. That's rather a peculiarity of the American system, in Europe, higher ed is more specialized and broad, general liberal arts education ends at the high school level. > But it never actually took the time to train, or grade us on the quality of our solutions to those assignments. I've worked as a teaching assistant, and it's often due to a lack of staffing and time. TA's are most of the time also PhD students and they have projects to work on and papers to write and giving detailed feedback on assignments is infeasible beyond a certain number of submissions. The same with exams. They are optimized to be easy to unambiguously grade in the shortest time possible. There's a conflict between two roles of the university: research and teaching. Research is more important for one's advancement, so teaching gets neglected.