I am currently enrolled in a college that requires me to take 10 liberal arts courses. I don’t want to learn about these things, psycology, sociology, speech, political science were a complete joke!!. Each class is about 1300 so what exactly am I paying?
Why do colleges make students take liberal art courses that really don’t teach nothing. My sociology, psycology and cultrual anthropology courses were exactly the same, I bought each of the courses books and never even used it. I am a computer science major why the hell do i need to take liberal art courses. What a joke!
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“…that really don’t teach nothing.”
You’re right.. Screw those classes. People like you should be spending that money on English lessons.
rashed2020 on July 1st, 2007 at 9:57 pm | Link
they want you to become a “well rounded person”
lowkeytokey on July 1st, 2007 at 10:24 pm | Link
You may be attending the wrong college (for you). It sounds like what you want is a technical college, where you learn how to do one thing - program computers. Universities are more than just places for job training. I’m sure the course requirements were well documented on the college’s website before you matriculated.
Regardless, you may want to pay attention in those things “you don’t want to learn about,” because you never know when they’ll come in handy in the future.
SCREW THOSE CLASSES. I ALREADY KNOW EVERYTHING THEY TEACH
Yah man screw those classes I dun lernt that in kenny garten.
Actually I feel/felt much the same way in college. I remember I once had to a take a liberal arts course I took music appreciation and hey guess what? I turned out to be one of the most enjoyable classes in my very long college career. And by the way we allways called them underwater basket weaving classes, becuse of their usefullness.
Mark on October 1st, 2007 at 1:44 pm | Link
ok just one more comment here. You know there are people who go to school to major in just those subjects. And guess what when they get out of college they realize they forgot to tell them that they just spent 7 years getting a masters degree in something that applies nowhere in real life and they then have to get a job a a university teaching their useless spoutings, which are required by the school for all those who attend just to protect that individuals job and to protect that subject which is really to protect that job but in turn protects the subject but wait it really to protect the job oh what came first the idiot teaching useless spoutings (Hello Al Gore) or the useless spoutings?
mark on October 19th, 2007 at 8:14 am | Link
“You’re right.. Screw those classes. People like you should be spending that money on English lessons.”
“Yah man screw those classes I dun lernt that in kenny garten.”
Wow, a lot of Ad Hominems I see.
Anyway, I agree with you Elbeston. Most of my classes aren’t even the least bit helpful in forging a path to the career I want. They’re just useless road blocks that decrease productivity in society. In the time spent on all of that crap, we could be contributing to society more so by becoming working members of society. But instead, we’re forced to sit there and shovel all this money into classes that don’t serve a purpose for our particular career.
One particular class that urks me the most is Speech. A 3 minute speech on something I value, why I value it, and the impact it had on me? The whole thing felt like we were forcing a round peg into a square hole. She’s a real stickler, but dons the mask of a laid back professor. If only I didn’t have to take it.
Bulzeeb on September 8th, 2008 at 1:10 pm | Link
ok let me say that i am a student working towards a sociology and an economic major. it really offends me when you call those classes that i major in useless. I can find many uses to what I study for. These classes really do make a difference-because guess what? society really needs people to think and analyze the progression or regression of government, society and the economy-so don’t come to me with that crap.
I agree with macaddict. If you really feel that you have been waisting your time in a university, its best you just attend a technical college. All they do there is “teach you worthy things” so that way, you don’t have to waste your time.
I really hope that you can see the worthiness of these courses, because think about it. Your computer sci degree can be worthless if there is a crash in the technology sector. But someone with an economics degree can do just about anything because its that broad. Don’t degrade us that way, it is rude of you to do so.
Jhoselis Brioso on November 9th, 2008 at 5:16 pm | Link
Mark, through all of his run-on sentences, does still make several good points. I too believe that many of these liberal art classes are forced down upon everyone because it’s a way to keep those who have chosen to do an “Anthropology”, “Sociology”, “Interdisciplinary Studies” degree as their career employed. It both keeps the students employed with a teaching career, and it keeps the school profitable by forcing ALL other students to now take 12+ Liberal art courses as part of any degree. It’s a win/win situation for both the grads and the school.
And in a weird way the schools promote/reward students to pursue such a path by offering to pay for their schooling all the way through their Ph.D’s. Sure they’ll have to live through a limited stipend for a few years, but they won’t have to pay for a single penny in tuition fees and living expenses, saving them $100,000+ in potential costs. I have a friend right now who is pursuing a Ph.D in 18th century English studies at Columbia University, and after she graduates she will not owe a single penny in tuition. Amazing. While others who pursue a degree in Engineering or Business, something much more relevant to society, can come out owing $50,000+ in tuition.
William on November 27th, 2008 at 4:48 pm | Link
Quote: While others who pursue a degree in Engineering or Business, something much more relevant to society, can come out owing $50,000+ in tuition.
LOL, Business is relevant to society? Unless your concentration is in Accounting or Economics, Business is the most useless major ever. In my years as a Business major, I learned precious little that wasn’t just plain common sense to anyone with half a brain. The classes that weren’t common sense involved accounting, economics, or that one junior-level class where we learned how to use Microsoft Access. My friend, a Business major as well, got a job at a bank. Guess what? Less than half her colleagues actually had a Business degree.
Laura Brown on September 21st, 2009 at 11:42 am | Link