Re: major-nonmajor

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

I think it washes out -- i.e. mixing majors w/ non happens -- for most.
The musician is lost in the Art class and visa versa.  I took Mudrick's
* Chaucer, because he was legendary, instead of kiddy lit., which many
of the science majors took.  I later learned that any NON major who
tried got at least a B.

At UCSB (50's) the majors didn't take the intro. courses -- the only
problems came in the upper division courses.

* Founder of the College of Creative Studies.

bc


Hugh Haskell wrote:

> At 19:00 -0800 2/12/04, Wes Davis wrote:
>
>
> > When I was in college (back in the sixties), competing in general education
> > classes with majors in that field was the rule, rather than the exception.
> > I took a year of economics with economics majors, biology with biology
> > majors, English with English majors.  I did not find it hard to compete.
> I think it's a selective thing. It's pretty much only in physics and
> maybe chemistry that special courses for non-majors are offered.
> Although too many of these courses are just dumbed-down traditional
> courses, I think a carefully constructed course that emphasizes the
> cultural aspect of science in general and physics in particular is
> more appropriate for non majors than a straight engineering physics

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