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College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT (www.businessinsider.com)

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College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT::The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester.

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[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You do realize you get to choose which courses to take in undergrad right? Universities aren’t forcing you to take any of the courses, you choose ones in subjects you are interested in, and first year is to get you up to speed/introduce you to those subjects, so you can decide if you want to study them further.

That's not true at all, every degree has a required core curriculum at every university I've ever heard of (e.g., humanities, some amount of math, some amount of English, etc). It also says nothing for the K-12 years.

[–] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In my university you had breadth requirements, but it was 1 humanities course, 1 social science, and 1 science, and you could pick any course within those areas to fulfill the requirement. So you had a lot of choice within the core curriculum. Man, if other unis aren't doing that, that sucks.

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

https://bulletin.uakron.edu/undergraduate/general-education/#associatedegreerequirementstext

That's roughly 10-14 classes. Most universities I've seen the first 2 years is mostly general education with a little bit of your major involved. Then there's your "college" requirements inside of the university, another 8 credits so 3-4 classes typically. Then the rest if your major credits, but that's at least 1/3 of your time on non-major work, and a lot of your degree program is going to be adjacent not totally relevant work, so, it's more than that.

[–] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

yeah, that's trash. I only had to take 2 out of 20 full credits out of my specialist.