I agree with the statement above that “students’ perspectives and expectations of General Education come from their experiences” as this statement can apply to almost any subject matter. Taking GenEd classes as a freshmen I had no idea what to expect of GenEd classes and no idea which ones were said to be easy or difficult. I instead chose the GenEd classes that I thought would be interesting to me. It is inevitable that there will be easier classes than others but I believe the point of GenEds is for the experience not the credits and if the teacher cares about what they are teaching, the rigor will follow. For the students who actually want to explore different subjects outside of their major Gen.Eds are the perfect way to do so. Out of the two GenEds I took freshmen year both were plenty rigorous involving going to every single class and work outside of class about every other day. However it is a problem that these “Easy A” classes do still exist in the GenEd curriculum. For the lazy students who do only want the credit they will take the easy classes and this is not fair for the rest of us. My personal opinion is that rigor stems from the teacher wanting to teach the class and therefore teach the students. The material of any course can be rigorous subject to the fact that the professor makes it that way.
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