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A relative of mine is an Accounting Major in a four year College Degree Program. He just completed his 2nd Year and will be a Junior this Fall. He said his first two years of college were basically a waste because it involved taking mostly the required Liberal Arts General Education classes. He only was able to take two Business classes due to the heavy requirement to take liberal arts classes his first two years of college. He got good grades and studied hard in these "fluff classes" so he could get into the business school and impress potential employers, but he considered the classes to be a waste of time and money.
He said the general feeling of everyone in his Accounting classes was Colleges should be only 2-3 years with basically no general education classes so the students can devote themselves to their Major.
They think that they had lots of time to study liberal arts in High School and due the cost of college it should be shorter and career related.
Another relative who is a Computer Science Major told me the same thing.
Should College general education requirements be eliminated to save time and money, so the students can devote themselves to career related classes?
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A relative of mine is an Accounting Major in a four year College Degree Program. He just completed his 2nd Year and will be a Junior this Fall. He said his first two years of college were basically a waste because it involved taking mostly the required Liberal Arts General Education classes. He only was able to take two Business classes due to the heavy requirement to take liberal arts classes his first two years of college. He got good grades and studied hard in these "fluff classes" so he could get into the business school and impress potential employers, but he considered the classes to be a waste of time and money.
He said the general feeling of everyone in his Accounting classes was Colleges should be only 2-3 years with basically no general education classes so the students can devote themselves to their Major.
They think that they had lots of time to study liberal arts in High School and due the cost of college it should be shorter and career related.
Another relative who is a Computer Science Major told me the same thing.
Should College general education requirements be eliminated to save time and money, so the students can devote themselves to career related classes?
then he needs to go to one of those purely business / tech schools and bypass all the liberal arts stuff and go straight into his desired field of choice.
did his high school offer AP? if so then he wasted his high school years and should've taken the fluff then and gotten it out of the way.
and..as i tell every kid "the real world is overrated, stay in school" :-).
A relative of mine is an Accounting Major in a four year College Degree Program. He just completed his 2nd Year and will be a Junior this Fall. He said his first two years of college were basically a waste because it involved taking mostly the required Liberal Arts General Education classes. He only was able to take two Business classes due to the heavy requirement to take liberal arts classes his first two years of college. He got good grades and studied hard in these "fluff classes" so he could get into the business school and impress potential employers, but he considered the classes to be a waste of time and money.
He said the general feeling of everyone in his Accounting classes was Colleges should be only 2-3 years with basically no general education classes so the students can devote themselves to their Major.
They think that they had lots of time to study liberal arts in High School and due the cost of college it should be shorter and career related.
Another relative who is a Computer Science Major told me the same thing.
Should College general education requirements be eliminated to save time and money, so the students can devote themselves to career related classes?
I agree with those who say if that's what he wanted he should have gone to a technical school, and I'm not talking about an "Institute of Technology" where one gets a BS but a school where one gets at most an AS. There is nothing "fluff" about English composition and other basic courses. Your relative may consider these courses a waste now, however, he may think differently later. It's called, "Can't see the forest for the trees".
Those accounting majors are a true bright light in the field. NOT! Their take on general ed courses demonstrate how ignorant they are. They sound more like people who haven't been there. I know someone who refers to college grads as "educated fools." I agree such creatures exist, but, not usually.
If all he wants to learn is accounting he should have done duel credits in high school, tested out of gen eds in college and taken 2 years to do his accounting degree...probably won't get a job doing that since most employers want people that can think and learn new things but hey, he saved some money
Accounting, especially at the undergraduate level, is really about training rather than education. Sometimes, people confuse training with education and vice versa.
Think about it this way: if you had a 13 year old daughter, would you rather that in school she receive:
Accounting, especially at the undergraduate level, is really about training rather than education. Sometimes, people confuse training with education and vice versa.
Think about it this way: if you had a 13 year old daughter, would you rather that in school she receive:
a) Sex Education? ... or...
b) Sex Training?
No, not a reasonable analogy. It gets attention, but, the attention is brief.
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This is a short-sighted way of thinking ... I have a bachelor's degree and, like the OP's friend, took a bulk of GE courses my first two years. I don't regret taking these courses as I found they expanded my wealth of knowledge. Education has been dumbed down so much so the last thing we need is to cut general education.
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