Colleges that don't require Gen Ed Courses

carolyn
Thu, 09 Feb 2006 17:57:04 +0000

Goucher would be a good fit for your daughter’s grades. They have a very strong art department, with some excellent art study abroad options. The general education requirements are very easy to satisfy - more distribution requirements than specific classes. My daughter liked that she would be able to take psychology to satisfy one of the two math/science classes in the distribution requirements, for instance.

My daughter is most likely going to be attending Beloit College in Wisconsin next year. They have a good art department, a good on campus art museum, a student run art gallery in the town, and some interesting off-campus study options for art majors. They have also just received a major donation earmarked specifically for the art program, which will be used to create an endowed chair and increase the faculty size in the art department. Distribution requirements are very flexible — two courses each in these divisions: humanities, social sciences, and math/science, but there is a lot of flexibility and the dist. requirements seem relatively easy to satisfy.

Other non-art school possibilities, depending on what she is looking for, and her test scores: Wheaton College (Mass), Lawrence U(Wisconsin), St. Olaf College (Minn), Southwestern U (Tx), Alfred University (NY), U of Denver, Hollins (VA), Lake Froest (IL), Knox (IL), Muhlenberg (PA - probably a bit of a reach), Southern Methodist (TX), Wittenberg (OH), Centre College (KY), but there are many others.