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From: rsk@j.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP
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Subject: Re: the trouble with universities
Message-ID: <3401@j.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Fri, 27-Feb-87 20:50:15 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 27 20:50:15 1987
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Summary: electives taken by non-humanities majors

In article <496@mipos3.UUCP> martin@mipos3.UUCP (Martin Harriman) writes:
> You may think you had to take "real" humanities courses; I'll lay two
> to one you took the introductory survey courses the real humanities
> majors do their best to petition/place out of.

I'll take that bet.  As a Physics/EE undergrad, and an EE grad, I've taken
graduate-level courses in the humanities, including constitutional law,
abnormal psychology, modern European history, and 19th century English
literature.  Aced them all, too.  [Okay, how much did we bet? ;-) ]

And in partial response to your other comments: after taking well over 200
credit-hours of courses, I still think the hardest topic in general is
physics; in particular, quantum mechanics is the hardest thing I've ever
had to get through.  The hardest humanities course I've ever had was
the law class; it was also the best one.

Rich Kulawiec, rsk@j.cc.purdue.edu, j.cc.purdue.edu!rsk