> From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > You're looking at the entire thing wrong. The purpose of college is to > to produce a well rounded and educated citizen.
Maybe undergraduate... maybe. Again, this is just my take on things. I was fortunate enough to go to great catholic schools (catholic not necessarily being the great part!) my entire life and get a first class education... so I guess I should have maybe mentioned that first. That being said, the well rounded parts come from Hihgh school. I did take psychology in high school and enjoyed it... as well as all the sciences, accounintg, math out the wazooo and spanish until I was blue in the face. College should have been more about the disclipline I was interested in, IMO anyway. You are right, certain dimenions of CS tie into Psychology nicely, mainly "Human Factors"... an area that we did happen to cover in CS. > philosophy teach more than what some dead white guy said over 2000 > years ago. It teaches methods of logic, argument and thinking. I totally agree with you, and that was great to learn in HS. Psychology was not my focal point post high school so my interest and desire to be involved with it was minimal. > > In other words therer are reasons for these extra courses. If you > wanted only a vocational school, well there's always places like > community colleges and Strayer. While there may be reasons for the "other classes"; at the graduate level I would have to disagree 100%. A masters level computer science degree program does not need to touch psychology anymore... nor general sciences or foreign languages. Again, this is just my take on the higher education system. It seems a little watered down and at the high prices we pay to go, we shoulde be able to keep the material focused more around our degree at all times. By the way... I am at Strayer. :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:145412 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
