On Tue, 21 Jun 2016 19:11:28 +0100
Roland Perry wrote:
As an aside, a third of my third year degree course was doing the entire
first year economics lectures - but not having to do all the course
work.

The other thirds were in the Maths department (mainly stats and game
theory) and the Engineering Department (what they called back then
'Operational Research' - applying algorithms to the planning of things,
and queuing theory).

I think there should be more multi-disciplinary degrees like that.

Depends if they lead to a better chance of a job at the end given the amount
students have to cough up these days. Also a lot of disciplines get more
and more complex as the years go buy. Even when I did my compsci degree back
in the 90s we covered everything from CPU architecture to AI, formal proofs,
graphics, networking, DB normalisation and structuring and so on. Given the
advances in those fields in the intervening years there's probably 2 or 3
times the amount to learn for an undergrad even if the core principles remain
the same.

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Spud