shasheenmachine

I looked at the core requirements and they seem pretty extensive compared to those at other schools. Are you able to find enjoyable classes that fulfill the core? Is the best strategy to spread out the requirements or get them out of the way? What's your overall opinion?

DHRBC07

I loved the core and got a ton out of it. Get it done by the end of sophomore year.

ClassicGuitar11

Core classes interesting and easy.

DHRBC07

Your strategy for doing the core should vary depending on what area you think that your intended major would be. If you have no clue, then do not take combo classes like Perspectives or Pulse so thatyou can truly sample every department.

rpksail

My freshman D was a declared chemistry major. Because she has enjoyed her core classes so much (exposing her for the first time to art, theology, sociology subjects), she has switched to undeclared so she can continue taking additional theology and art classes for the next two years. She will declare at the end of her sophomore year.

beanieboo

as a CSOM student who has never really had any academic interests besides for history (after taking AP US in hs with the two best teachers ever), i love the core. my favorite subject has always been math because it makes sense, has concrete rules, and requires NO writing. i picked CSOM because i pretty much just knew i didnt want to do anything else (except for a month when i thought i wanted to be a history/math teacher but then figured out i wouldnt really have a passion for teaching).

as a student who always hated english, i love my lit class right now. were reading interesting novels and short stories and my professor even made me love things like othello and oedipus! i mean i still hate writing and analyzing literature but im enjoying taking this class for a semester. and my history class has sucked all year.. prob have the worst prof at BC right now. i like learning about history but im not really interested in the writing/reading part of it. its too subjective for me.

i know im not making much sense, but i like the core. cant wait to take PULSE next year. as much as ive enjoyed my business classes so far (computers in mangement is quite possibly my favorite class i have taken in my life), im happy that there is the core to balance things out

Kabalou

beanieboo-

which history class did you take ? are all the history teachers that bad ?

miragemage

i dont think all history teachers are that bad. you can go to ugbc.org and look for the PEP's of teachers to help aid you in determining your professors.

beanieboo

i took democrazy rights and empire. first semester i had rosser and it was a decent enough class, easy course load and interesting because we took the same old history youve been learning since 4th grade and just looked at it in terms of goals and the title of the course. and rosser was always entertaining enough cause he said crazy things sometimes. i know i said before it sucked all year but looking back rosser was just an "interesting" fellow, and it was frist semester so it was very different from HS.

then second semester we had a different professer. i know that shes NOT being asked back to BC next semester, nor are they writing her recommendations for any other schools. the hsitory department has been trying to get her to follow their syllabus but she really lectures on wahtever she pleases all semester. jumping around to current events and compltely unrelated things and then has an impossible final. had it today, everything from the french rev to the present and it was our only test all semester. we had to pretty much memorize every single primary source we read all semester, know the titles and authors of each and waht it contained and even WHICH source book it was in. i could rant about her forever and ever becuase i havent even started and belive me the feeling is mutually felt by all of her students. lets just say even the one of the TA's bashed her in discussion along with her methods and reiduclous assignments.

and no not all of them are that bad. like i said rosser is easy and decent enough and most people find their core history courses a bunch of reading but not too difficult. just go on ugbc.org to the PEPs before you register and read the reviews for all the different courses and professors. it acutally gets me really infuriated when people tell me about THEIR history courses and my stupidity of not dropping the course at beginning of 2nd semester when half the class did after 2 lectures with her.