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Caliber of 'humanities'
melman
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I gather Olin utilizes Babson College for entrepreneurial/business courses and perhaps Brandeis for study in the humanities. Can anyone comment on the caliber of these courses? It is important to me that that third leg of the 'Olin Triangle' be robust and on par with the engineering instruction. Thanks!
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Replies to: Caliber of 'humanities'
-Molly '09
-Molly '09
The days of the week Olin classes are offered are in sync with Wellsley's, which makes scheduling easy.
My ex-roomie's boyfriend graduated in '07. Senior year I remember him borrowing an Olin van. I forgot how he pulled that one off.
I knew one Olin student who biked to class at Wellesley (this was three semesters before the shuttle).
-Molly '09
AHS=Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
AHSE=Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Entrepreneurship
These are sometimes interchangeable. A lot of us are too lazy to include the E, but it's there.
E!=entreprenurship. I thing the ! is to make sure we don't confuse it with engineering.
There is an AHS committee which (I think) deals with integrating AHS in the curriculum, as well as the hiring of faculty and formation of new classes. Advising really depends on the specific faculty member who is your adviser, and how much advising you request from them. In my case, I have had the same adviser for the past three years and plan to stay with her for the fourth. You can change your adviser every year if you want to, depending on where you go with your major or interests, or if you just don't meld with your current adviser. Some advisers are easy to get in touch with, others are not. But it's really easy to talk to professors who might be able to help you with your questions even if they aren't your adviser. You might want to check out the advising section of the student handbook available from the star dot olin dot edu website.
Also, I can describe the AHS concentration and capstone program, that all students must complete. Pretty much, you have to take 28 credits of AHSE (about 7 classes), but a certain number of them have to be AHS rather than E!. At least two of these have to be related in some way that can be used to create an AHSE capstone (you can do it in AHS or E!) that is either 4 credit project that you design yourself, or an upper level class. There is a lot of freedom to study all kinds of things, but you're supposed to develop some depth, too.
Feel free to ask more questions. I might be one of a few people answering them, because Olin is back from winter break, but I am studying away this semester and I haven't left yet, and am increasingly bored. :)
-Molly '09
This is true...It takes more work at Olin to do AHS than it might take at a school with many different majors. But because you have 4 schools you can take classes at you do have the chance to do something unique with it. And the only complaint I know most people have is there is too much they want to take but they can't fit it all in, rather than there is nothing that interests them.