I really hate required social BS college classes.

[brtspears2]

Unfortunatly, you goto college to get a well rounded education.
You goto that one school they mention on TV just for a specific skill/education which takes about 18 months to learn.

Social problems is a decent class, I'm taking it right now to finish off all this social stuff of my EE degree....

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: notfred

the same people that named him "Darkmoon Cliffdewller" are the ones who teach these stupid classes.

Wow, I never knew UC schools required all "social BS college class" professors to be native americans.

 

[Spoooon]

Originally posted by: Squisher
If there is a social-psychology class in there, take it.

Its amazing how much we are really all nothing more than lemmings.

I took social psyc a semester ago. Some of the movies we watched were hilarious. The best involved an art studio. Random people that walked in were asked to examine a painting. It had some trite name like Boats by the Sea. The person would venture their opinion. A collaborator would say something like: I see a boat here, and the sky there. The random person would almost always agree and even expand on the idea. Then the curator would be like: Oh, there's been a mistake. This painting is upside down. Or something like: This isn't Boats by the Sea. heh.

 

[notfred]

Hmm, never considered that the guy was Navajo, I was thinking "son of Hippy parents from Berkeley".

Anyway, I know college intends to provide a well rounded education. That's why there are required classes in art, history, science, math, language, literature, etc. I'm not complaining about taking these classes. I realize why they're offered.

However, I fail to see any value in requiring me to take "Homosexuality" or "Sexual Offenses and Offenders".

 

[datalink7]

Bioethics is the only one that sounds interesting to me.

 

[KMurphy]

They offer you a choice, you're not required to take the two you mentioned. I agree that those particular two are not in my interest realm either. You must be going to some extremely Liberal school out west? The women's study courses are quite interesting though. You can gain an infinitesimal insight into their nature and they are usually filled with the cuties who did not pursue BS degree.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: notfred
I HAVE to take one of the following classes to get my Comp. Sci. degree:

Cultural Diversity
Women Cross-Culturally
Cuture and Poverty
Sexual Offenses and Offenders
Economics of Racism
Women and the Economy
Contemporary Environmental Issues
Ethnic America
Native American Experience
La Raza Studies <- WTF is that?
Women, film, and American Culture
Women's Health
Bioethics
Homosexuality
Social Problems


That's about 1/3 of them, but they're ALL like that.....

Argh, BS requirements :|

<Nelson vioce>HA-ha</Nelson voice>

We have required course categories, but not required courses like that. (At least not in Arts, Sciences and Math specify which classes but those are strictly Physics and Calc-types of classes.) My advice to you is to learn for the tests and then promptly forget all the liberal idealism the professor has tried to beat into your head as soon as the class is over.

ZV

EDIT: The problem is not with the classes per se, but rather with the spirit in which they are taught. If the classes could be taught objectively it would be a different matter but it's an almost universal condition that such classes are not really classes but a means of promoting a liberal/socialist agenda. The classes blame Capitalism, Colonialism, men, straight people, caucasians, and successful people for the ills in the world. Have fun being a middle-class straight white male in these classes, you'll be told that every problem in the world is your fault. They've tried that with me and gotten rather more than they had bargained for in return when I called them on their BS. Thankfully now that I'm in the College of Business Administration things have gotten much better.

 

[Pheran]

Take one of the "Women's" classes, walk in the first day and announce "Any of you biyatches want to ride my wild monkey!?" and see what happens to you.

 

[Kerouactivist]

Makes people well rounded, if you wanted to go to tech school you should have gone to tech school

 

[Bluefront]

Heh....brings back old college memories. I needed a two hour course for some reason or other...the only one I could fit into my schedule was called "Minority Problems". Of course I took the name to mean problems caused by minorities, affecting mainstream America. Wrong. The dumb professor considered me to be the cause of his "Minority Problem" thing. What a riot. At every turn we were at each other's throats. The tests were a joke. If you can survive these PC courses, you're real lucky. Me...I got a "C". Mostly because I purposefully answered questions my own way, rather than how he wanted.

Anyone who says these courses belong in an academic setting, is a fool.

 

[StageLeft]

I would take social problems, culture and poverty, or well yeah that's the only two I'd pick.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: datalink7
Bioethics is the only one that sounds interesting to me.

I noticed that class also, but I believe it's offered in the same spirit as the others and will discuss things like "is cloning ethical?" and "is stem cell research ethical?", and will do so not from a neutral point of view.

All of those classes listed are going to be absolute crap with the educational value of dog poop.

 

[MGMorden]

Hey SuperCommando! (I'm a Clemson Computer Science major too).

We do only have to take 6 hours humanities, but there are a few more aggravating classes that might help, but I don't like them (Speech, Literature, etc). I just don't like that stuff. I am doing an emphasis (possibly a full minor if I can work in the extra class or two) in History though so I'm still getting a bit of cultural type classes in my schedule.

 

[Platypus]

We have to take 6 hours of humanities at Purdue as well, but I tested out of 6 hours of Spanish, so I am golden baby.

 

[ebaycj]

Take the homosexuality class and call the professor a "i love you" in front of the class on the first day. Youll pass with flying colors












j/k of course
ebaycj

 

[rh71]

BS req'd courses helped me graduate semi-on-time (4.5 years) after changing majors twice... finally settled on a major during my 4th semester.

 

[Alphathree33]

Wow that whole list is really politcally motivated. That's so wrong.

As an engineer I do have to take a few social science courses. My choices are interesting. I think I will take "east asian studies". I should enjoy, especially if I decide to study in Japan for a year.

At least it's not "east asian female studies with respect to racism, ethics and diversity".

 

[Jzero]

Some of those classes are probably pretty cool. Some of the "lame" classes I was forced to take turned out to be almost as fun as my CS classes:
Politics & Religion in the Middle East was one.
We were required to fulfill a Women's Studies requirement, so like all you all blathering on about how they are all exercises in man-hating, I hesitantly picked up Psychology of Women (Psych o' women? haha!), which turned out to be a very fun and interesting class. That same semester I dropped one option and picked up another women's studies class (Gendered Technoculture: Sex, Lies, Videotape and The Internet), which was friggin brilliant. Come and whine to me about a class where you have to watch The Matrix as an assignment.
I was so impressed with those two classes that I ended up picking up a women's studies minor and taking:
Global Feminisms
Eat/Drink, Man/Woman: A gendered history of food
Psychology of Personal Relationships
History of Western Sexuality.

The classes were amazing, aside from Astronomy and Outdoor Recreation, these were the only non CompSci classes that I actually enjoyed. Women's Studies isn't about male-bashing, believe it or not.

Anyway, at the end of the day, those BS classes score brownie points with the corporate recruiters who think it's oh-so-cool that I'm was a women's studies minor, so at least there's something good to come out of this.

 

[timmyG]

Originally posted by: Jzero
Anyway, at the end of the day, those BS classes score brownie points with the corporate recruiters who think it's oh-so-cool that I'm was a women's studies minor, so at least there's something good to come out of this.

or they're normal and think your kinda queer.

 

[Aceman]

So you hate those "social BS" college classes. I hated taking 8 credits of Science and 8 credits of math/computer science classes for Bachelor of ARTS in Political Science/Criminal Justice/Pre-Law. Sorry, but I have yet to see where Rocks for Jocks (Earth Science), Algebra, and BASIC Programming has helped me in any of my jobs since leaving college! Although, taking all those women studies classes would set this male chauvinist off!

 

[Moonbeam]

I would agree with the consensus here except for one thing. Total ignorance, while completely invisible among similarly ignorant people is completely transparent and obvious to those who aren't. You may never really know for what you were passed over as a fool.

You see out there children, that line of floats. That's where the deep end of the pool starts, so don't go beyond that point. Stay in the shallow end and you will be safe. Now everybody get a buddy and repeat. 'Stay in the shallow end were we won't drown.' OK kids, go have fun.

Take the feminazi courses. You guys would be a lot more substantial as women.

 

[SuperCyrix]

Unfortunatly, you goto college to get a well rounded education.

Yeah, a well rounded CS major can write better programs. CS, ECE would be so much easier if they got rid of the bullsh*t classes.
On a more positive note, I rember the hottest chicks I've met in college were all from those bullsh*t GE classes.

I hated having to waste my time in those classes, but I always enjoy going cause the chicks were so hoooot!

 

[BL0RT]

dude take the classes cause the girl to guy ratio is going to be much much higher than any of your comp sci classes