Four Year Degree -In Referance to elginduley post

Jon Payne · 2011-10-11T21:58:58Z

elginduley posts [msg=98914]original thread[/msg] about his conflicted thoughts on continuing in surveying due to a degree requirement in Florida.I am not looking to start the age old degree/experience discussion, but I would like for those who have a 4 year degree to point out some of the beneficial information you may have gained as a result of the degree. If you can specifically address his concern of "If I could take classes that were specifically about what I do and not have to go through the electives, liberal arts, etc (read = $ for the school) then absolutely, school first."I am very glad to have taken several of the electives I had.The strictly surveying coursework was great. However, it was in electives that I got my first exposure to GIS and Urban Planning.Statistical analysis was certainly taught in many of the surveying course, but the full semester class on statistics was an elective.Programming classes and technical writing classes (don't judge the writing skills based on a message board post) were electives intertwined with all of the surveying classes. However, the full semester spent on the specific study of the subjects was were I learned them. They were applied in the surveying course in support of the surveying content.That is off the top of my head, but I'm sure there were more electives that really supported the core surveying curriculum.When looking at the proposed course outline for a 4 year degree, there are often times that a specific math or writing class is a prerequisite to the course you are really anxious to take. The reason being that the skill set developed in the prerequisite will be applied in the course you want to take. Some people may not necessarily need the prerequisite to get by.Not every course I studied is something I retained and still use. So I can certainly understand that you don't want to have to take a left-handed basket weaving course.

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Mapmaker I hold out as a professional not as an industry man

I agree. Should have chose my words more carefully.

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