I think this exemplifies a big problem with this article and many of the comments here. Deciding what classes certain students 'should take' is fairly easy. There seems to be a consensus that engineering students should take humanities and humanities students should take engineering classes.
In my experience, forced enrollment in non-major courses breeds disinterest. Plenty of engineering students just do the minimal amount of work in required humanities courses and learn nothing.
Instead of requiring specific humanities courses, colleges should, at least, provide some options so that not every student is stuck in a bullshit writing class that they don't care about.
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I think this exemplifies a big problem with this article and many of the comments here. Deciding what classes certain students 'should take' is fairly easy. There seems to be a consensus that engineering students should take humanities and humanities students should take engineering classes.
In my experience, forced enrollment in non-major courses breeds disinterest. Plenty of engineering students just do the minimal amount of work in required humanities courses and learn nothing.
Instead of requiring specific humanities courses, colleges should, at least, provide some options so that not every student is stuck in a bullshit writing class that they don't care about.