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Originally Posted by arpad_m
You are probably right about the proliferation of filler electives, this wasn't as bad in my day. Otherwise I respect your stance on those wasted classes, but disagree in general, one doesn't always know in his teens and twenties what will be useful in their future.
(I taught computer science classes in a college for a total of 9 years, and heard this same argument from students nearly every week. You don't want to end up one-dimensional when you graduate. At the same time those random useless courses that are shoved in because professor XYZ loves them gotta go. Ironically, debates over this and other dubious department policies was one of my reasons for quitting...)
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From my perspective, if you’re one dimensional when you graduate and don’t like that dimension you can always go back and go in another dimension. Although today that’s almost cost prohibitive. That whole “don’t want to be one dimensional” thing is bogus because no one cares if you know the history of Eastern philosophy when you’re interviewing to repair medical equipment.