Timeline for How can I deal with students who are not interested in the class but the credits?
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| Aug 22, 2022 at 10:23 | comment | added | jaskij | @moonman239 PasserBy in our system (at least ten years ago) all classes are mandated, period. The only choice you have is choosing one of several tracks, which can be compared to subfields I believe. But the classes for the degree and the track are preset by the department. No catalogue or anything. | |
| Aug 21, 2022 at 19:39 | comment | added | Tamoghna Chowdhury | @AliMustafa you could delete your account as a measure of last resort | |
| Aug 20, 2022 at 13:53 | comment | added | Bryan Krause♦ | @AliMustafa The content license here requires SE to honor requests to dissociate your name from a post. However, note that there are some consequences, that this is permanent, and that it really should be used sparingly. For details and how to request dissociation see meta.stackexchange.com/q/96732 | |
| Aug 20, 2022 at 6:07 | comment | added | user161772 | @BryanKrause Understandable. But there should be some logic on the site where if a question does not have answers, then the user can delete it (the site already allows this), and if the question has answers and effort from the community, then the user has the option to retract the question. This retraction means that the user name of the asker will be concealed or replaced with just "Anonymous" or "Stack Overflow" since SO owns the questions and the answers (I am not aware if the site allows this). | |
| Aug 20, 2022 at 5:21 | comment | added | Bryan Krause♦ | @AliMustafa Q&A here are meant to be for the benefit of more than just the original asker, and a lot of other people have put effort into answers, and it's not fair to them to delete their work. | |
| Aug 20, 2022 at 4:20 | comment | added | user161772 | @BryanKrause It has been conducive and enlightening for me to read the answers and suggestions of fellow academics. Since you are a moderator, I would like to ask whether it is possible for you to delete the question? | |
| Aug 20, 2022 at 3:41 | comment | added | Passer By | @jaskij What I find in mandated classes is that the classes are dumbed down, for the benefit of the uninterested students, to the point where no one can find any joy in them. | |
| Aug 19, 2022 at 19:05 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | So true! I took a linguistics course because I was obliged to take enough gen ed credits to graduate, and it looked like the path of least resistance. Turned out that the topic and teachers made that course one of the most fun courses I took in all of college! I still find little ways to sneak what I learned there into my daily life. | |
| Aug 19, 2022 at 18:10 | comment | added | moonman239 | @jaskij similar for the US. Every degree has what we call a "catalog" that spells out how to qualify for a degree. There are classes you absolutely have to take (ex: Computer Engineering students have to take calculus & physics), there are groups of classes you have to select from (ex: you have to take some humanities credits but you can choose a history class or a social science class) and then maybe you have to take one or more credits in a more general group of classes (for example, you could choose either a kinesiology course or a psychology course) | |
| Aug 18, 2022 at 22:56 | comment | added | jaskij | Funnily enough, I ended up working as an embedded developer after failing that class, and retook it flying through the labs since I have learned the stuff OJT. | |
| Aug 18, 2022 at 22:55 | comment | added | jaskij | My university (as many in Poland still do, I suppose) didn't have something like choosing classes. You chose your programme, which later split into several tracks, and that's it. For some reason as CS students we had a single electronics and metrology class, taught by two professors. Attendance in the lectures was around ~2%, the professors still took it in good humor, being aware of the realities of ours system. Hell, they even made it relatively easy to pass, aware that we are forced and almost none of the students have any interest in it... | |
| Aug 18, 2022 at 20:23 | comment | added | arne | I'll have to support @BryanKrause on his point of "finding an interest". I experienced this first hand in university and even wrote my diploma thesis on this topic, even though I couldn't fathom what it was good for and even failed an important exam in it at first. | |
| Aug 18, 2022 at 18:56 | comment | added | Bryan Krause♦ | @JamieB 4 year universities are not job-training programs. | |
| Aug 18, 2022 at 18:53 | comment | added | JamieB | @BryanKrause - One of the other reasons, though, is that while "teaching a person to do a thing" cannot possibly take a remarkably equal 4 years for so many occupations, it can if you sufficiently pad it out with required courses, which means every student pays the universe the same hefty sum, regardless of how long it might have really taken them to learn an occupation. In my opinion, it is basically just a scam by universities at this point. | |
| Aug 18, 2022 at 17:47 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | This isn't an issue, but a feature of the US system, at least. | |
| Aug 18, 2022 at 14:05 | comment | added | Bryan Krause♦ | One of the reasons for encouraging students to take courses they might not have otherwise is that they may learn something anyways, or find an interest they did not know they had, thanks to instructors who are passionate about their topics and convey this to their students. | |
| Aug 18, 2022 at 10:57 | history | answered | Robert Columbia | CC BY-SA 4.0 |