I don’t understand why core classes are necessary for undergraduates to graduate college. A student ends up spending money on an assortment of classes that are irrelevant and nearly unnecessary for their subject of study. Although the classes one undertakes that would fit the description of a core curriculum are only one and two thousand level courses, they’re still unnecessary.
As a political science major, I personally don’t see how a physical, biological, or chemical science could help me. Taking such a class, doesn’t help me or prepare me. Most science classes I’ve taken simply prepare me for a monotonous semester of remembering a lot of information that I will find useless and simply fail to remember once I’ve taken the class. Although, I find that instances as such do occur often in life, but I more or less see them as more annoying then helpful. (Maybe that’s the problem?)
The humanity course requirement also is one of the classes that seems less appealing to me. I see it as a class specifically designed to help culture a student in the likes of drama, music, or art. But, I for one have no interest in any of those. If a student truly wanted to edify themselves, there are several other ways besides sitting in a class, such as seeing plays, listening to different kinds of music, or even going to a museum.
Aside from a college writing class, most of the core classes I would take in college, I don’t see myself benefiting from much in the future. I generally tend to do worse in classes that I’m not interested in or realize that it will have no future relevance in my potential occupation or career.
One could say the courses are designed to prepare students for higher level courses. It could also technically be a lesson of life. A harsh lesson that there will be phases in your life, months at a time, where you’ll be forced into positions where you’ll be doing busy work and attend meetings that will literally cause you to suffer (This seems to happen to me a lot). Outside of that lesson, they could simply implement more one and two thousand classes for specific majors. Money could be an issue there, but nonetheless a suggestion.
Other then a semester’s worth of classes to help students write and prepare for future college classes, most of the classes we’re forced to take to fulfill requirements to graduate I find unnecessary and boring.
