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On the contrary, I love to read about history, politics, philosophy, and literature. Heck, I even enjoy classical music and the occasional opera! Just don't force it down my throat, and don't ruin my life if I'm not good at it. Just because I'm not good at conjugating German verbs or interpreting sonnets doen't mean I can't do a bang up job of solving 2nd order partial differential equations.

I'm a physics major at the U of TN, Knoxville. I thought of taking the Engineering Physics path for this very reason. UT doesn't force nearly as much stuff on engineers as they do on the so-called "pure sciences" like chemistry, biology, physics, etc. The College of Engineering makes their own graduation requirements and takes care of their own pretty well, while physics got cubbyholed into the College of Arts and Sciences, which requires this stuff.

Hey, we technical types need to unite, can't let the man keep us down, eh? :o)

C XIII: why shouldn't they at least have to take and pass some sort of fundamental logic course or Calculus I?

cornelis I see you have been deprived. Sorry to hear that.

This betrays a bit of loss of logic on your part, doesn't it, Cornelis? C XIII asked why is logical thinking no longer a basic requirement; after all, Calculus I does not touch anything we learned since about 1800. That is, he questions why would non-engineers be so deprived.

In response you express, patronisingly, your regrets that he, Constantine III is deprived. Not much logic there; you must have flucked that Calculus I.

See my earlier post on penis... or so, science envy. YOu appear to be afflicted.