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Engineers are not taught humanities here in the UK, and I'm sure that's also true in many other countries
by joeberon 5y ago
Engineers are not taught humanities here in the UK, and I'm sure that's also true in many other countries
- ghaff 5y agoDepends what you mean by "taught humanities" I guess. For my engineering degree in the US, I certainly took non-engineering/science courses as part of a distribution requirement and took various other courses and did various other activities as well. Among other things, communications has been a key part of my career track.
- ben_w 5y agoLiterally zero of my degree modules (BEng Software Engineering, Aberystwyth) were non-software engineering. But the UK does all of education differently to the USA, or at least it did when I went thought it: mandatory up to the age of 16 where you got approximately a dozen GCSEs, then two years doing A-levels (3, 3.5, or 4), then you go up to university. The only mandatory requirement to do humanities was in the GCSEs.
- joeberon 5y agoDuring an engineering degree in the UK you will not be required (or even usually have the possibility) of doing a non-engineering module
- randac 5y agoI think the only module I took that was close to this, for CompSci in UK, was on technical writing.
- ericd 5y agoMIT requires it of everyone, but Economics fulfills the requirement (and it’s a popular route, since you get a bit of basic algebra homework instead of paper writing).