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People are starting to get it (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 18 points 4 months ago (7 children)

This is why I advocate for, hear me out, liberal arts. 🤢

Soc 100 or 101, can't remember which, taught this.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    After not enjoying Applied Calculus, I took Modern Math, AKA Math For English Majors, to complete my math requirement.

    It was a great class! Lots of useful, real-world math skills. It didn't use anything much more complicated than simple algebra, but we talked about the traveling salesman problem and ways to fairly split up an estate.

    We also talked about election math, and how first past the post is objectively a terrible election system, and how there are several systems readily available that are mathematically more representative of the will of the people. I don't even know if the teacher had a specific political stance, or if she was just mathematically offended by our outdated democratic operating system.

    Great class. Wish they would start teaching subjects like that in high school.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    As a STEM grad who spent 2 years undeclared, it sounds like a course even STEM people could use.

    I'm so thankful that I sort of accidentally backed into a well rounded education. I cannot say the same for the majority of my STEM colleagues.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I think especially STEM students should have lib arts requirements.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    100%. Some of the most useful courses that I took were either electives or simply did not count toward my major. Specifically: a logic course, a course about the history of socialism, and a writing course (including research papers)

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Unfortunately, HS teachers in places which need to know these things the most are also the most likely to lose their jobs for it. E.g. In my HS, learning 'history' stopped at the beginning of the 20th-century.

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