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<p>Actually, I think it would be quite simple. Use the same grade curves that the science/engineering majors do. For example, if only 20% (or whatever the percentage is) of the grades in the science/engineering classes are A’s, then only 20% of the grades in the humanities classes should be A’s. </p>
<p>Now, I know what you’re thinking: that would just make the grading in the humanities classes arbitrary, for who’s to say that only 20% of the students in a humanities class deserve A’s, right? But the same logic is true of the science/engineering classes. After all, I could just as easily ask why only 20% of the science/engineering students deserve A’s. Why not 50%? Why not 75%? The 20% figure is arbitrary whether it’s applied to humanities or to sci/eng. Yet everybody seems to have accepted that figure for the sci/eng students. So why wouldn’t they be able to accept it for the humanities students too? </p>
<p>{Actually, come to think of it, I don’t really want this proposal at all. Instead, what I really want is for the sci/eng classes to use the curve of the humanities. For example, if 50% of the grades in the humanities classes are A’s, then 50% of the grades in sci/eng should also be A’s. If the humanities majors don’t weed, then the sci/eng majors should also not weed. But the salient point is, what’s fair is fair. We should not be having such large grading disparities among majors.}</p>