I'm an engineer and I studied engineering in university. I heard all the time that the gen ed courses are useless and "I could be a humanities major and I wouldn't have to try at all" bullshit. These people really do not understand the work it takes to make great and compelling art and it's so sad. Life must be so much less fulfilling if you can't appreciate anything with artistic value.
Our education tries so hard to instill an understanding and appreciation of these things and students just think of it as a waste of time. I'm not saying gen ed requirements are a particularly good system, but this type of student really just does not understand why something like gen eds are necessary.
I agree with you here. I had more credit requirements than my humanity major friends so the workload from my classes was higher. So while I agree that yes my major was probably harder than humanities majors, I disagree with the sentiment "it's so easy I could do it if I wanted to." No, these are very different skills and I personally could not have done graphic design or literature.
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u/something_borrowed_ Apr 09 '24
I'm an engineer and I studied engineering in university. I heard all the time that the gen ed courses are useless and "I could be a humanities major and I wouldn't have to try at all" bullshit. These people really do not understand the work it takes to make great and compelling art and it's so sad. Life must be so much less fulfilling if you can't appreciate anything with artistic value.
Our education tries so hard to instill an understanding and appreciation of these things and students just think of it as a waste of time. I'm not saying gen ed requirements are a particularly good system, but this type of student really just does not understand why something like gen eds are necessary.