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Education

sulphurdunn

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6. My son is enrolled

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Sun Oct 28, 2012, 08:06 PM

Oct 2012

at Virginia Tech. He is majoring in physics with minors in math and astronomy. He can spend all four years there without ever taking a humanities or social science course. This has troubled me. I am even more troubled after reading this article. I had always assumed that everyone was required to meet a liberal arts distribution to receive an undergraduate degree. I guess I was wrong.

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