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Originally Posted by Velvet
Yes, I don’t believe in force feeding students past high school education. However, for example, if you need math, eg. statistics, for psychology and you are really interested in say, becoming a clinical psychologist, as a student you either bite the bullet and learn the math so that you can do the lab analysis required in psych courses, or find a different major to study. If the student is interested enough they will work on all the courses necessary to get their qualification.
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I don't know how it is now, but when I went to college in the late 1970's-early 1980's there was a thing called "all-college requirements." If you wanted a 4-year degree in anything at all, you were required to take and pass certain courses. English 101 was a minimum (I had to petition the Dean to be placed in advanced English. The E101 professor was upset that I corrected her correction of my very first paper for the class. She criticized the content instead of the quality, and the assignment was to write about my topic of choice.) I was required to take at least one math class and one civics/sociology class, and I was required to take a history course and Senior Seminar. For civics/sociology I took a class on deciphering state general statutes. Pre-law stuff.
Almost all of the rest of my four years consisted of creative writing, prose and poetry, oration, classic literature, Chaucer and advanced Shakespeare, and a ton of journalism classes including court reporting (fascinating, final paper covered a homicide case). Everything else was electives so I filled them up with things like ASL and psychology.
Another requirement was that I had at least one full year of a foreign language in High School, or that I take at least one semester of it in college. I'd taken a couple years of Spanish in high school so I was exempt from having to take it in college.
I didn't have to do well in any of these "all-college requirement" except English because that was my major. But I did have to pass them all, and not be on academic probation more than one semester out of the four years.