Subj : Re: Screens Distract Stud
To   : Aaron Thomas
From : Dr. What
Date : Wed Apr 02 2025 07:26:07

-=> Aaron Thomas wrote to Rob Mccart <=-

 AT> I'm glad that electives (liberal arts/gen ed, etc) were useful for you.
 AT> They probably are more useful to me than I realize, but I just don't
 AT> see it yet.

It depends on your career and classes.  A class in Internal Engine Combustion
Chemistry isn't worth much if you are an electrician.  But a class in soldering
would be very useful.

In college, I took a humanities class in Logic that covered boolean logic.  As
a computer scientist, it was a very useful class.  But a chemist wouldn't find
much value in it.

 AT> But can you credit any 101 courses with giving you job skills? I can't,
 AT> but I've never held a job that requires a college education.

101 courses don't provide job skills.  They either are:
1. Weed out courses for students who aren't serious about their major.
or
2. They provide the knowledge that the next layer of classes builds on to give
you job skills.


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