<p>Everyone has their ideas of what courses just need to be taken.</p>
<p>My list includes not necessarily in any ranked order.</p>
<p>Modern Language (or test out, fluency is the goal)
English comp
English/world Literature
Western Civ.
US History
World History
Art History
Economics, Macro, Micro
Psych Intro
Anthropology
Biology Intro
Philosophy Intro
Ethics
Logic
Comparative religion
Finance/ Business Artihmetic
Earth Science, Geology, </p>
<p>Plus a major in one of the above or engineering, business, nursing etc.</p>
<p>Agree with addition of music and physical science (physics or chemistry). Times have changed, psychology was a general education requirement at my college, but I think philo/ethics/logic would have been better.</p>
<p>A friend (CEO of a successful big company) mentioned last night that the college course he values the most, looking back, was Public Speaking. I have a feeling many HSs don't require that anymore. </p>
<p>A course on communications/the media - something to help young adults analyze the news they read/hear/see online with a more critical eye. </p>
<p>The Sunday NYT Week in Review section on March 13 had an article by Adam Cohen criticizing the SAT's decision to remove analogies, noting that people make inappropriate analogies too often these days. The example cited was a conservative activist's comment on NPR's Fresh Air comparing the estate tax to the Holocaust. Cohen's ending comment: "A nation whose citizens cannot tell a true analogy from a false one is like -- fill in your own image for precipitous decline."</p>