That’s how it’s worked for decades, although recently there’s been a move away from breadth requirements. A lot of students pretty much ignored those classes. I should have realized I wasn’t really a techie because I loved them.
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I was in university in the mid 90s.
Engineering gave me:
- 1 elective first year (humanities, I took a language)
- 1 elective third year (humanities, part 2 of the same language)
- 1 choice in fourth year (Engineering Society, Engineering History, Labour Studies)
I am grateful for Labour Studies
I’m so old that when I went to college, you paid your flat tuition and took as many courses as you thought you could handle. I took a lot of them, required and otherwise! Didn’t do well in all, but it gave me a lifelong habit of reading interesting stuff outside my field. That’s how it should be.
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Engineering gave me:
- 1 elective first year (humanities, I took a language)
- 1 elective third year (humanities, part 2 of the same language)
- 1 choice in fourth year (Engineering Society, Engineering History, Labour Studies)
I am grateful for Labour Studies