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Article #385Re: the trouble with universities
From: rsk
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1987 01:50
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1987 01:50
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In article <496@mipos3.UUCP> martin@mipos3.UUCP (Martin Harriman) writes: > You may think you had to take "real" humanities courses; I'll lay two > to one you took the introductory survey courses the real humanities > majors do their best to petition/place out of. I'll take that bet. As a Physics/EE undergrad, and an EE grad, I've taken graduate-level courses in the humanities, including constitutional law, abnormal psychology, modern European history, and 19th century English literature. Aced them all, too. [Okay, how much did we bet? ;-) ] And in partial response to your other comments: after taking well over 200 credit-hours of courses, I still think the hardest topic in general is physics; in particular, quantum mechanics is the hardest thing I've ever had to get through. The hardest humanities course I've ever had was the law class; it was also the best one. Rich Kulawiec, rsk@j.cc.purdue.edu, j.cc.purdue.edu!rsk
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!j.cc.purdue.edu!rsk From: rsk@j.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP Newsgroups: sci.misc Subject: Re: the trouble with universities Message-ID: <3401@j.cc.purdue.edu> Date: Fri, 27-Feb-87 20:50:15 EST Article-I.D.: j.3401 Posted: Fri Feb 27 20:50:15 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 1-Mar-87 15:00:05 EST References: <254@uhmanoa.UUCP> <73600005@uiucdcsp> <1411@navajo.STANFORD.EDU> <496@mipos3.UUCP> Reply-To: rsk@j.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (Wombat) Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 17 Summary: electives taken by non-humanities majors