• Squizzy@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    General education is for primary school,ore focused in secondary and then it is specific in College. It seems very odd to me to get a degree and have credits be unrelated to the discipline.

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      9 months ago

      Not here in the US, College continues these GenEd courses for like the entirety of the 1st year and the first half of the second (sometimes entire second). When I was in college I couldn’t even take ANY of my discipline related classes until I knocked out enough GenEd courses, which worked out to about 1.5 years of college before I got to take my actual discipline classes.

      Like I said, it smells like a pure profit motive to me in the US to have these mandatory GenEd courses, sounds like you’re from a country with free higher education yea? That’s probably why it sounds so weird to you, free higher education no profit motive and then just like that “General education” classes aren’t so important after all lolol

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        9 months ago

        It’s not free but it isn’t criminally expensive like the US though for some it is cost prohibitive.