One Question?

Monmouth University....If I could ask one question about it, I would have to ask: Why does Monmouth University require its students, who are paying a substantial amount of money to attend, to take classes that have nothing to do with their majors, or are absolutely pointless to take?

As the countdown to graduation starts I begin to think about this in reflection of the past three years that I've been here. I don't understand the reasoning of taking Critical Discourse if you've already taken and passed a public speaking course. It's basically the same format...but oh wait, I forgot, Monmouth is a business, not an educational institution! It really doesn't care about what its students take or don't take as long as it's making money, and lots of money at that! Critical Discourse, for me personally, was a waste of time, simply because I really did not learn much. I knew how to give a formal speech (thanks to high school AND the public speaking class that I was REQUIRED to take here at Monmouth), I already knew how to conduct a debate since I've done it several times in the past, so for me, what's the point? It's not like it has anything to do with my major?

Yet again, I don't understand the point of taking Senior Seminar. I understand it's supposed to be a wrap up of all four years at Monmouth, and what you've learned in those four years. But what I don't understand is why are we required to write the exact same paper we wrote in Comm Theory? I mean, wasn't Comm Theory bad enough? I know for me it was! And maybe this doesn't apply to all Sen Sem classes, maybe just the one that I'm in, I don't understand how the professor is "teaching" us to write a research/lit review paper when, honestly we should have known how to write a paper like this entering college! I also don't understand how a professor can sit there and say that he, himself hasn't written a "real" research paper because he was a Theater major, but he knows that all the paper's that he has read were not well written, and flat out bad! How could he be the judge of that if he admits that he never really wrote a research/lit review? Another class that's a waste of my time, especially since I drive over an hour to sit there for 45 mins., and another class that is a waste of my parents hard earned money. Why? Because Monmouth is money hungry.

I don't think that it's just Monmouth University that is money hungry, I think it's the majority of colleges today. I think maybe, if colleges stopped acting like a business and more like a place for people to grow intellectually, maybe there would be smarter people in the world, and running it.