Should Universities Have Required Courses?

[GePap]

Law school is a form of trade school, and so is medical school. That these sort of instutitions want to avoid taking in students without BA's, well, their choice, but you really do NOT need a BA in anything to then go straight into Law school or even Medical school, as far as what you will be studying. The one things going to a 4 year college beforehand gives you is more experience in handling the workload and hopefully better writing skills and better math (but this depends on what high school you went to.

I call them trade schools cause the only thing you learn in Law school is how to be a lawyer, and in Med school, how to be a doctor of some sort..that is waht trade schools are, fully focused on getting you the skills needed in one particular field.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I'll second what GePap said. Law and Medical schools are trade schools. The only difference is their requirements include a BA (usually... if they are accredited ). What we consider 'trade schools' usually have lesser requirements to get in.

[Tuberski]

Like a pulse.

ACK!

[Kuciwalker]

I don't know about college's, but I think the requirements for each category of courses for high school should be looser. I don't want to take four years of english and social studies/history; I want to have room in my schedule for more science courses.

[Jon Miller]

I think certain types of classes should be required

but I guess I would consider that the case considering I come from a liberal arts school

Jon Miller

[Kuciwalker]

What I meant was, I should be able to choose to take only, say, three years of english/history and use the two extra course slots for math or science.

[TCO]

But the whole thing becomes sorta semantical. What is wrong with universities in name ebing trade schools in function. Do we really need the amount of people who go to college to get true liberal arts educations?

[Jon Miller]

it is what is needed to have an educated populace

which is nice for a well running society

Jon Miller

[Drake Tungsten]

Using the male term for both genders is proper English.

Of course it is. Not very PC, though.

[cinch]

Should Universities Have Required Courses?

No!

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I just don't want to have to take any science courses anymore, dammit!

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

Using the male term for both genders is proper English.

Of course it is. Not very PC, though.

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ACK!

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Why the **** should I have to take a science course? And a LAB science at that?!

At my school, required courses count for over ONE THIRD OF MY CREDITS!!! WTF?!?!?!

[Imran Siddiqui]

We only had 3 required years for History (but I took 4).

But, if you say that, then I'd argue that you should have less required math/science cources to use for history/english, etc.

Maybe having just 3 years required for math, science, history, english, and then have your senior year be free for you to choose?

In our school, we only had to take 4 years in English and three in everything else. But most of us took 4 years in Math and Science, because colleges liked that sort of thing .

[Kuciwalker]

But, if you say that, then I'd argue that you should have less required math/science cources to use for history/english, etc.

Of course, at a regular school, however I go to a science and tech school (says so in the name ), so you SHOULD be required to take a higher number of math and science courses.

My real complaint centers on the fact that I have to basically choose two of three (and I'm doing way more than most): computer science, biotech/chem, and physics stuff. I want to do all three, but I don't have enough course slots to do them all.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Yes, but they can't leave you as being a total noob in other subjects .