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AKAK said:
I'm not saying any of that, I'm just saying, I didn't find it particularly challenging.
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Like any area of the university outside of the hard sciences or engineering, I think it varied. I had easy classes. After the engineering sequence in calculus and physics, introductory astronomy was a breeze and lower level History or literature classes weren't ballbusting. OTOH, upper level classes in 19th century Russian lit (I think we averaged 1000 pages of reading per week), Soviet style economics and Soviet economic geography and History classes taught by my adviser (notorious hard grader) were as challenging as anything I would later take at Chicago.

At the end of the day, liberal arts vs. business is a legitimate debate. I'll, however, never bring myself to agree with the notion that a humanities or social science degree isn't inherently more challenging (particularly if you're in honors and go out of your way to make it challenging) and educating than things like family science or sports management.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Like any area of the university outside of the hard sciences or engineering, I think it varied. I had easy classes. After the engineering sequence in calculus and physics, introductory astronomy was a breeze and lower level History or literature classes weren't ballbusting. OTOH, upper level classes in 19th century Russian lit (I think we averaged 1000 pages of reading per week), Soviet style economics and Soviet economic geography and History classes taught by my adviser (notorious hard grader) were as challenging as anything I would later take at Chicago.

At the end of the day, liberal arts vs. business is a legitimate debate. I'll, however, never bring myself to agree with the notion that a humanities or social science degree isn't inherently more challenging (particularly if you're in honors and go out of your way to make it challenging) and educating than things like family science or sports management.
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Just sayin': "Easy classes" all depends on what you have an aptitude for. I took over 40 hours of math classes (starting with the Calculus I) and never got below a "B".
On the other hand I managed a "D" the second time I took Psychology 101.:argh:

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Buckeye Maniac said:
I have a degree in Political Science. The extent of the math I had to take was college algebra. The extent of the science was one biological or physical science and a lab and second class for one of them. That was it. Unless you count the statistics class that I had to take which consisted of learning to kind of code.

Of course, maybe I was doing it wrong, which would be the reason I'm back getting a degree in evolutionary biology.
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OK. Let's see what you have learned at THE Ohio State University.

For 25%, explain the evolution supporting the biological outcome pictured below.

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