Summary
College students in the 1970s could complete degrees in liberal arts, English, psychology and sociology without ever having taken a mathematics course. Likewise, engineering, computer science, pre- med and geology students could earn degrees without having to read a novel.
By the 1990s, the academic world pushed the pendulum the other way, and thus was born general education requirements, known to students today as "gen ed." They are not universally embraced, as seen in a recent opinion column in the Maine Campus, the University of Maine student newspaper. "There are deep reasons for despising general education requirements," junior Jeremy Swist wrote. "Gen eds are just a repeat of everything you learned, or should have learned, in high school," he argues. "The increase of gen eds, which devour college students' time and money, is an inverse function of the quality of American high school education."See the full content of this document
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Generally Educating
Mr. Swist asserts that students grow bored, waiting almost two years to take classes in which they ...
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