Colleges with lax distribution requirements

Keilexandra
Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:28:04 +0000

^^ I have no idea where you got that assumption from… if you are a non-science major, chances are you will NOT have to take calculus or statistics for your major. Stats for the socsci people, perhaps. I’ve researched a LOT of English, Comp. Lit., French, and linguistics department websites; not a single one has required math as part of the major. Because math is largely irrelevant to a humanities specialization and is left to the college/university’s GE requirements.

A brief/imperfect list of open curriculum schools, although you probably know all of them already: Brown, Amherst, Hamilton, Vassar. Grinnell and Rochester offer a lot of flexibility. Smith and Wesleyan have open curriculums ONLY if you are willing to forgo Latin honors (“optional/highly encouraged” distribution reqs). Hobart & William Smith has an interesting curriculum with Goal Petitions (so you define how you learned about scientific inquiry, not necessarily within the context of a class) plus disciplinary major/interdisciplinary minor, disc major/interdisc major, or disc major/2nd disc major/interdisc minor. ([HWS: Curriculum](Curriculum | Hobart and William Smith Colleges))