Dear Editor,
I wondered what the implications would be when Ball State University changed its motto to "Redefining Education." BSU is still offering "Everything you need," and now forcing plenty that you don't need.
I'm talking about the plans for a new, expanded core curriculum. Ball State administrators need to wake up and realize that we already have too many classes that are completely unrelated to our fields. If I wanted to study sophisticated thinking, I would have gone to a liberal arts college. Instead, I went to a university, only to find myself bogged down with completely superfluous classes. Most classes taught things I already knew, or things I would never need to know in my career. This philosophy has also spread to individual colleges within Ball State.
To become a biology teacher I must, for some reason, take two physics classes, three chemistry classes, and a math class. Yet, as I prepare to actually participate in a classroom, I realize that Ball State has failed to offer me two vital courses: one that focuses on life science lesson planning, and one that shows how to run a classroom laboratory. Ball State should drop the requirements for some nonessential classes, and instead offer classes that will actually help students down the road. If they continue to add more and more general education courses, it will eventually take six years to obtain a four-year degree. It already almost takes five. Of course, that does mean more money for the university.
Andrea Townsend
Junior
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