Can someone please help me out? I am a Criminal Justice major. But I am only taking one Criminal Justice class. The rest of my classes are Math, Writing, Public Speaking, Philosophy, and the icing on the cake, Freshman Seminar. Does anyone want to clarify to me how these courses help me, or are they just another irrelevant situation that the liberal arts education presents.
What are your majors? Are your classes just as irrelevant as mine? or do you feel that your classes actually help you out?
I can honestly say that I am 100% sure I will never do anything that requires most of the math learned. I'm a political science major and criminal justice minor, I do not need to, nor ever will need to, know how to find the determinant of matrices. I understand that studying a variety of subjects makes us "well-rounded" people, but we cover a lot of material in high school, such as math, that makes us "well-rounded". My only suggestion is to try and take the core courses that have a twist that pertains to your major. For example, think there is a science course that has something to do with criminal forensics.
ReplyDeleteHaha, "icing on the cake!!" I completely agree, Freshman Seminar is totally irrelevant to anything we will ever do! My theory on Freshman Seminar is "if we have made it to college, we have found our way of succeeding."
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm in the same position as you...I'm a business and math major, and have neither of those courses in my schedule this semester -__-
And Sam, I agree with you too! High school has forced us to become "well-rounded" whether it be academic or social! And, I have already made up my mind about what I want to do! As for opening my eyes to new subjects...high school did enough of that!
Though I can see some advantages of writing and public speaking, other courses like philosophy and Maths are complete waste of time. And three theology classes are yet to come.
ReplyDeleteSome of the classes I am taking will never do anything to my grade except putting D on my transcript in Calculus part.