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Colleges really need to upgrade STEM requirements for liberal arts. At my alma, science/engineering required 18 arts credits while arts required only 6 science
by andromeduck 3y ago
Colleges really need to upgrade STEM requirements for liberal arts.
At my alma, science/engineering required 18 arts credits while arts required only 6 science/math credits.
- fallingknife 3y agoThey can't. Liberal arts classes are taught at such a massively lower level that this requirement would mean STEM courses would have to be dumbed down or liberal arts majors couldn't pass. Lots of failed STEM majors in history class, but did you ever run into a failed liberal arts major in diff eq?
- djtango 3y agoI went to a UK uni but my observation was that the curve was much narrower and forgiving for humanities and then much broader for STEM. So this meant it was much more straightforward to get a top grade in STEM but on the flipside it was easy to objectively fail. Whereas for humanities it was extremely opaque what it took to get a top mark but most people would get a decent mark. And almost no one fails.
- fallingknife 3y agoIn the US it's just A's all the way. If you want to see where the problem comes from, just look at the average GPA in a teaching degree program! Standards are in the past here. They are even dumbing down math class now in the name of "equality."