Interesting piece. I am inclined to ask, should we have a core curriculum? This is anecodotal only, but when I was an undergrad I felt like many of the classe

Interesting piece. I am inclined to ask, should we have a core curriculum? This is anecodotal only, but when I was an undergrad I felt like many of the classes I took where of no benefit, but they were required. Now that I am working on my masters degree, I am tightly focused on my field (and a tiny handful of electives in one other very tightly connected field) and every class is relevant. There may be a value in maintaining a broad based core curriculum, but then it seems there is also value in a tighter focus and it may at least in some cases make sense to permit students to narrow in on that tigther focus earlier. Of course, that tight focus should never be too confining. I changed majors twice before finding one I was happy with, and even while working on my masters the idea of switching has come up.