Juvenis

Sorry if this is on the wrong forum, but I don't know where else this would fall under.

Anyways, as you all know, there is Liberal Arts/Gen. Ed/Core Curriculum and there is Vocational/Technical/Open Curriculum (if you want to debate whether that should stand on it's own, fine).

Out of the 2(3), which one do you think would be most beneficial to a student and why?

P.S. I'm not asking this question for my personal benefit. I'm curious about YOUR personal opinions.

ucbalumnus

"Open curriculum" is not the same as "vocational/technical/pre-professional". Indeed, some of the best known "open curriculum" schools focus mainly liberal arts subjects and have few or no overtly pre-professional majors or courses offered (e.g. Amherst, Evergreen State).

"Vocational/technical/pre-professional" is not mutually exclusive to "liberal arts core curriculum". The military service academies have the latter, but are obviously pre-professionally oriented (the profession being officer in the military). MIT has a relatively large core curriculum, but it also offers overtly pre-professional majors like various types of engineering and business.

What is most beneficial to the student depends on the student.