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Unfortunately in Universities, you can stay away from the EE classes (well, depending on if you want to take the classes), but you sure as hell can't stay away from the indoctrination classes.

I know. I had to deal with that. Requirements for graduation. It was beyond pathetic. My worst mathematis teacher was better read than the illiterate moron who taught my class. The DiffEq teacher barely spoke English...well, the black humanities teacher barely spoke english as well. He would sing us slave songs, while being ill prepared and lazy.

I was informed by the head of the dept., after emailing all the porfs in the department, that the class teaches "critical thinking". I asked what that meant and never recieved a reply. That class effed up my GPA that semester. I'm still pissed.

I received A's in every single Liberal Arts class that I took at U.T. I had a good strategy going: I would write my papers as far to the left as I possible could. My senior year I coudn't take it anymore and wrote that "religion can help people understand morality" and received the lowest grade in the class. I barely passed the class! I started being left-wing with the remaining papers and was able to receive a C.

Unfortunately in Universities, you can stay away from the EE classes (well, depending on if you want to take the classes), but you sure as hell can't stay away from the indoctrination classes.

This is one of my major pet peeves. Science, Math and Engineering students are required to take a certain amount of "social electives", literature, history, etc, so as to be "well rounded" and responsible citzens. However the liberal arts types are often not required to take any math or science, or if they are they are allowed to take the "baby" versions. I've long maintained that if you don't understand what a differential equation is, what it means, and understand the solutions (not necessarily be able to generate them yourself), then you really don't understand how the world works, and have no business making decisions for the rest of us, or even having signifigent input on them. Everyone should also have some statistics, so they can somewhat judge the difference between lies, damn lies and statistics. :)

Unfortunately in Universities, you can stay away from the EE classes (well, depending on if you want to take the classes), but you sure as hell can't stay away from the indoctrination classes.

Yeah, that is very unfortunate indeed. I was talking to the department chair of my university (EE) prior to graduation, and he was telling a group of us about how many units it used to require to graduate.

From a unit percentage standpoint, the number of core classes related to the degree was higher back then, and the 'fluff' classes were kept to a minimum. When I graduated, it required 202 units to graduate, fully a 1/6th of it was for 'indoctrination' classes.

Luckily for me, I took these types of classes in the summer quarters, and normal people were teaching them. In fact, for the PolySci class, it was taught by a ex-Chicom instructor. Someone that escaped Chicom. He was really frothing in the mouth against Mao and his 10 year programs and civilian purges. I think commieprof should have taken this guy's course.