tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6759912868753684019.post686855181243636145..comments2024-03-06T22:17:12.401-08:00Comments on Evolution Beach: Anthropology MajorAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05671518366138965993noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6759912868753684019.post-18778034703582870972012-05-13T18:56:48.237-07:002012-05-13T18:56:48.237-07:00It's not just an issue at the department level...It's not just an issue at the department level though. I'm still trying to figure out why I needed to take "capstone" courses in things like "Comic Humor" - a course aimed at surveying the history of comedy in literature - because they supposedly make me a better addition to society.<br /><br />I hope the academic bureaucracy will have to face the ridiculousness of its policies soon enough. Lots of professors and administrators seem to downplay the role of online educational services as being only "supplemental" and unable to ever provide a true replacement for the traditional classroom environment. With the increasing amount of high quality websites aimed at educating the public for free (some, like MIT/Harvardx and Coursera, eventually planning on offering certificates of their own), how much longer will higher education be able to continue the tragicomedy?<br /><br />P.S. I didn't need a semester of "comic humor" lectures to teach me what tragicomedy meant. A glance at Wikipedia would have sufficed.Evanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01276120223194023801noreply@blogger.com