| Our daughter (a rising junior) just completed her distribution requirements, which focused on maths & sciences mostly. That because advanced high school courses will give you credit, so she entered Colby with a number of the requirements in English, languages, etc... actually out of the way.
While a couple of the requirements weren't her forte and not hugely fun, she loved one of the science courses she took and got a huge amount out of it. She also ended up choosing her summer internship on the basis of a new awareness of issues raised by the course.
So it goes to show that distribution requirements can, in true liberal arts terms, expand the mind and can benefit the student in unexpected ways. Never would she have taken the course otherwise. |