[viraptor]

That sounds like a strawman. Does any CS major require Greek mythology?

[anonymoushn]

I would have preferred Greek mythology to art history, which I took to meet a requirement of my CS major.

[ryandrake]

I don’t know how it is today but when I went, you had to take a certain number of credits in humanities, social sciences, etc, no matter what your major was. So while they didn’t specifically mandate “Greek Mythology,” they mandated a certain number of credits from courses in that bucket, which stretched the time commitment for the degree at least a year from what it would have been if I focused on just my major requirements.

[viraptor]

CS requires some humanities and CS requires mythology is pretty different. And ideally CS would include some relevant topics for understanding how tech can inadvertently mess up people's lives.

[cratermoon]

> ideally CS would include some relevant topics for understanding how tech can inadvertently mess up people's lives

I saw this elsewhere on HN and thought it was worth bringing to this thread. https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-young-stanford-graduate-trie...