False Advertising in College Courses

I'm tired of false advertising in college courses.  When they name a class they should name it for&nbs p;what it is&nb sp;instead of w hat sounds good .  I didn't  go through&nbs p;all the machi nations to get& nbsp;to take a& nbsp;couple of courses just to get tricked into a class that&nb sp;I have littl e use for.  Or maybe  I did.

I signed up for "Probability and Statistics" in the Math Department, which is not to be confused with the same kind of course offered in the business de partment.  No, this  would be  the one for&nbs p;the smart peo ple that I'm&nb sp;taking; for  scientists and  engineers.

As much as I wanted to take a different course (linear algebra, which I heard good things about), this was the only one I could fit into my 42 year old life.  But I could see a lot of uses for stats.  When I did "environmental consulting" in the "hazardous Waste" business stats were used all the time on the data in the final reports, and our data was "verified" using nothing much more than statistical techniqu es.  I could get behind taking s tats in the&nbs p;math department&nb sp;where you ha ve to understan d the theories& nbsp;behind it  and the methods , and not  just memorize a  bunch of  formulas.  Every di scipline uses s tats, from poli tics to social& nbsp;science to  ;hard science t o engineering.

Yep, stats would be cool, and useful.  We're not doing stats.  We're doing probability.  Yes the course is called probability and stats, but we're just doing probability.  Why?  The professor said something about it being a single semester course and a bunch of other stuff that didn't matter so much.

When I was an undergrad, I took a class called "Logic&n bsp;and the Sci entific Method"  which was  ;supposed to be  an "inter disciplinary class&q uot; bridging m ath and philoso phy.  On day&n bsp;one the pro fessor announces&nbs p;the class is& nbsp;not "Logic  and the S cientific Method&quo t; but just&nbs p;Logic.  

What the hell is going on with TBLOG's "advanced View"?  In plain view you can't put in&nb sp;paragraph breaks,  and in ad vanced view the  line goes  ;on and on  ;when you type& nbsp;often not  "auto-returning" ; for those&nbs p;old enough to  remember elect ric typewriters with&nbs p;that feature.  And ever y time I f ix a spelling&n bsp;or change s omething around  ;you get these& nbsp;crazy symbols&n bsp;showing all  ;my backspaces  and stuff.  Man that  is lame.

Anyway, I'd take a logic class, just like I'd take a Probability class.  Understanding the underpinnings of the Scientific Method would be useful because in science it would be good know you're doing science and not just collecting a bunch of data and making up stories about it.  Logic could help with that.  So could a course teaching symbolic logic and then bridging it to the scientific method.  Similarly, stats are everywhere and should be understood by people wanting to see deeper into the world.  I can't imagine why Probability gets priority in this class over stats.

Anyway, I'm sick of false advertising in college courses, and I'm sick of the glitches in Advanced view.  Is there a way to put paragraph breaks in the "plain" view?  If anyone knows, please post in a comment.


Thanks.