Originally posted by ironmaniup
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I agree with you on the second part. The PASSHE curriculum is designed to keep faculty employed and create artificial demand for courses under the guise of a liberal arts core. This artificial demand led to creating departments and majors that were never popular but the budget was sound so nobody questioned it. I know that's rather cynical but its true. Like you said, its something that was created within a vacuum by system folks without much consciousness for how things are done elsewhere (a system-wide issue). There are MUCH higher ranked schools that don't have half the degree as general education. It also empowers the doubt in the value of the setup - without using cliches can they show that taking a second math class makes you a better high school history teacher or taking a philosophy class makes you a better biologist?
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