When I was at uni in Canada it was a modular system. We didn't have to take third-and-fourth-year level subjects in our non-major classes, but we did have to make sure we had at least some sciences and some humanities and so on. I think this is a good idea.
If we wanted to do a 'minor' in another subject, we would have to keep taking that subect for the four years, and make some advancement. For example, had I wanted to, I could have done a major in music with a minor in, say, logic. But we didn't have to do it that way.
The nice thing about the modular program was that if you messed up you could take another year or semester or wahtever to fix it with the right courses, if it was caught soon enough; sometimes things like this could even get fixed over a summer term if the right summer courses were offered.
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Date: Thursday, 14 September 2006 06:12 pm (UTC)If we wanted to do a 'minor' in another subject, we would have to keep taking that subect for the four years, and make some advancement. For example, had I wanted to, I could have done a major in music with a minor in, say, logic. But we didn't have to do it that way.
The nice thing about the modular program was that if you messed up you could take another year or semester or wahtever to fix it with the right courses, if it was caught soon enough; sometimes things like this could even get fixed over a summer term if the right summer courses were offered.