> These students paid real money to voluntarily attend an undergraduate ethics and technology course
Did they really? I'm pretty sure mine was required and most of us didn't really care about it. We were paying for the other classes, not that one.
Did they really? I'm pretty sure mine was required and most of us didn't really care about it. We were paying for the other classes, not that one.
Moreover, you voluntarily paid for and committed to earning a holistic degree---full stop. How you appraise its normative pieceparts is wholesale irrelevant, and the matter of extracting value from the vested experience is entirely on adult you. Something about leading a horse to water comes vaguely to mind.
A relevant counterfactual is that you could have bypassed lower division altogether and just audited upper division courses which you independently deemed to contain intrinsic market value as a non-degree-seeking student, dramatically reducing financial liabilities and time commitments to academic lethargy. Hell, you could have skipped university altogether and developed the necessary technical skills that you think the market values online for free! And yet you didn't...almost as if you desire the fringe benefits that society extends to formal degree holders without actually putting forth the honest effort expected of your accredited peer equivalents across the nation. Have your cake and eat it too much?
Example of real world consequences? Every year, my employer swallows an absurd indirect expense explicitly reminding its workforce of statutory regulation, internal policy, and professional obligation towards ethical practice to cover its ass because so many of my so called "learned" peers conveniently dismiss the softer elements of their formal education---major election years being particularly egregious---and then these former employees cry when an industry conditioned to anticipate such halfbaked behavior catches them in the act, chews them up, and spits them out like expendable cud without regret.
You reap what you sow.
[1] https://a.ualr.edu/classes/index.php?term=202460&campus=M&se...
[2] https://catalog.ualr.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=20&poid=...