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ud2006 · 01-06-2009, 11:23 AM

what do you mean if your major only takes 2 years?

i'm not that familiar with CGS but from what I understand you take all general requirements in the first two years (math, science, etc...) and you're allowed to take one class in CAS, COM etc... each semester after freshman year. You can look all this up on the CGS website too and i'm sure there are other posts about CGS as well. Then after your two years in CGS you "graduate" from CGS and can enter into any other school at BU. Because you basically took only general classes in CGS, most of your liberal arts requirements at whatever school you enter should be fulfilled.

for example, in COM, in addition to your major classes you need to have 2 math/science, 4 english, 2 history, 1 multicultural, etc... your CGS classes would fulfill most of those.

All in all, CGS is basically for students who BU feels should go to the school but aren't quite as ready as the other students they accepted.

01-06-2009, 11:23 AM	#2
ud2006 Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 97	what do you mean if your major only takes 2 years? i'm not that familiar with CGS but from what I understand you take all general requirements in the first two years (math, science, etc...) and you're allowed to take one class in CAS, COM etc... each semester after freshman year. You can look all this up on the CGS website too and i'm sure there are other posts about CGS as well. Then after your two years in CGS you "graduate" from CGS and can enter into any other school at BU. Because you basically took only general classes in CGS, most of your liberal arts requirements at whatever school you enter should be fulfilled. for example, in COM, in addition to your major classes you need to have 2 math/science, 4 english, 2 history, 1 multicultural, etc... your CGS classes would fulfill most of those. All in all, CGS is basically for students who BU feels should go to the school but aren't quite as ready as the other students they accepted.
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