I find myself picking faults with our math department more and more as of late. Despite having taken a majority of the core undergraduate and graduate classes(Analysis,Complex Analysis,Algebra,etc...), I find myself missing the writing intensive requirement. This means I may very well have to take the 3283 class, which is a significant step down from the classes I am enrolled in now. Whose idea was it to impose this requirement on math majors? Why not make the 5000 Analysis sequence writing intensive? There is certainly a lot more (rigorous) writing taking place in both the Algebra and Analysis sequences.
Ideally one should be able to make a case for being exempt from such a requirement. This department has moved heavens to make sure a mathematics student can graduate without taking either Analysis or Algebra, yet is very adamant that every student(regardless of merit) be subject to the writing intensive course.
What is a student to do?
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I'm not sure if this applies for IT students as well, but the honors thesis is going to count for my upper division writing intensive requirement inside my major...
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