America started school a fucking month ago, we've already ridden the but-I-don't-want-to train and have stepped off at let's-buckle-down-and-deal-with-this-shit station
USA USA USA USA
Lessee... AP World History, AP Calculus, AP Government, DE English Composition, DE Human Anatomy & Physiology, and good old Economics. Luckily I don't have Spanish 3, they stopped offering that at my school once they realized that they were already assholes for only offering spanish and latin as foreign language classes. So instead of learning something interesting, I get to sit through rehashed bullshit and loads upon fucking loads of homework.
I don't quite get american colleges. I mean I am studying to become a civil engineer specialized in computer science and networking. Which means my days are filled with math, comp.sci. courses, physics etc. A friend of mine is studying to become a math teacher, studying well.. math and courses about teaching etc. Another friend studied to become a lawyer and did all the law stuff.
What I am getting at, here, everything is focused, you choose what you want to study and get courses tailored to that
1, but whenever I hear about americans, they have things like you listed, a mish mash of World History and human anatomy. I guess there is a difference between swedish universities and american colleges I am missing here :p
In the lawyer example I guess you go to 'law school' for that, but how does that tie in with college?
Sorry for rambling :p I got up really early and I am tired as shit, if I made no sense what so ever, just ignore me ^^
1You can choose courses outside your program of course, but at least in my case, there is no way I would have the time to take a course on philosophy in between my engineering stuff.