Many declared students wonder why liberal arts courses are required to take outside of their majors when they came to college. Many are under the impression that they would be studying in the major they have chosen.
ECG’s, sciences and math are all classes that are taught at liberal arts colleges, like Cabrini College. For most schools these classes are required and considered, “gen ed’s.”
Why do we take these classes?
Are the helping or hurting us?
College, though fun, can be the toughest test of any student’s career.
Being independent in a new atmosphere, where all the pressure is on you is hard enough, but when you attend a college or university with required courses, it can make life a little more challenging.
Most liberal arts college’s offer required courses to be fulfilled during your four years at the establishment and our school is no different.
No matter the major nor the amount of credits earned, we as students at Cabrini have to take certain courses like, religion, ECG, math and more.
Do these classes help us or do these classes interfere with what we want to do in our field of choice?
Junior business major Laura Petrucci said, “Taking these required courses adds more stress to my already hectic schedule, and as a student, who really wants that?”
She is right, most of us college students would love a decrease in stress and work, but there are pros to taking these courses that not a lot of students see.
Your major prepares you for the field of work you are choosing to work in and it gives you the essentials for what you need in the area you have chosen.
What it does not prepare you for are the curveballs that life can throw at your career.
These required courses that make you interact with people, think critically and problem solve are tools that will suite you very well in the real world.
These courses are not there to add stress to your life, but to give you skills needed to survive in the real world as an adult.
“Though it adds more work and at times can become stressful, required courses like an ECG gives us certain thinking and people skills that some of us would not receive in our major of choice,” said junior finance major John Baldi.
It can be tough and strenuous, but taking these courses is part of the college you committed to and can do nothing but help you in the long run, with a little stress added in along the way.
