I must respectfully dissent on the grounds that I believe courses focusing on a specific period or event to be extremely valuable. To say certain Core courses' narrowness of scope makes them "ridiculous" not only undermines the importance of major periods such as the French Revolution or the Warren Court, but also suggests that breadth and shallowness are inherently better than depth--an altogether dubious assertion. Learning about an important period offered in the Hist B category of the Core (e.g. America and Vietnam or the Civil War) is imperative to an educated person. It is just a shame we can't take all of them.
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