This is why all engineering (and physics and math) majors should be required to dual major in something outside their field. Make them study humanities or social science as well.
Im aware some courses are required. I have an engineering degree. My point is, there should be a more systematic requirement than just taking a few random humanities courses.
Double STEM major. My experience was that the Sci and Eng classes were so heavy in terms of credits and schoolwork that students were directed to several specific classes that could count towards multiple general ed. requirements. These classes had nothing in common and were generally one-offs. 1/
Freshman level philosophy or something similar was discouraged, because it was considered an inefficient use of credits. I didn't really feel like I got a series of good classes to form a foundation until I decided to get a minor in a foreign language. Some of this is on the universities. /x
We had a fine arts requirement. The two ways that STEM people tended to fulfill that were either Art History (which also counted toward the "Foundations of Western Culture" req), or Music Theory, which was absurdly easy to get an A if you could already read music.
I was a Math major, Women's Studies minor. It tended to confuse other people in both departments. Math people would at least sometimes ask me what I was learning in Women's Studies classes. Women's Studies people were like, "Cool, we need more women in STEM! Glad you're doing it, so I don't have to"
Women's Studies was interdisciplinary, so there were just two required courses (intro and political theory), and the rest were courses offered by other departments. I took a few English classes, something like Women's Health Care in sociology, and Women in Jewish History, and a couple others.
My daughter is a mechanical engineering major.
Her school requires social science/humanities classes be taken every year.
She’s taken Science of Football,
Psych courses and writing classes. And she spent a year volunteering with a nonprofit
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He pays real engineers, who spend half their time trying to keep him from meddling.
Problem is they're first on your chopping block when the workload overwhelms you
But also I probably would've taken it anyways, because I love classics.
Her school requires social science/humanities classes be taken every year.
She’s taken Science of Football,
Psych courses and writing classes. And she spent a year volunteering with a nonprofit
All STEM and no humanities