If you look at why a liberal arts education was created, it becomes evident that it is for people that are unsure what they would like to pursue a career in. While this is all well and good, many people already know what they are planning to do with their lives. Liberal arts education just confuses everyone even further. In fact it is a liberal arts education that deters many individuals away from it by showing them easier courses that the student choices to switch an intended major to due to the easiness. This in fact is teaching today's youth to take the easy way out.
In addition, for the students that are undecided for what their plans of the future are, that is what the major Undecided is for. Let them enjoy the luxury of a liberal arts education to help them pick a career. The rest of us should just work on courses for a major and not deal with the stress of classes that are totally irrelevant to us. This would make stronger potential job candidates sense we are greatly detailed in our background of a career rather than have 50% of our education for our career and 25% of our education for things that we already have learned and have been doing for years, and the other 25% of our education on things that we we never use again after we pass that class. It seems like a logical choice to me.
I can agree with you on this. I know exactly what I want to do with my career after college and 3 courses of Theology is not going to help in any way. In fact it may even end up hurting me in the long run. The only class that I don't have either an A or B in, so far, is my Theology class. I think it is unfair that my gpa has to suffer because I don't always know everything about a religion. There should definitely be more focus on our majors and a little less on the liberal arts courses.
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