Humanities at Northeastern - Question for current science students

nanotechnology
Mon, 24 Apr 2017 14:11:30 +0000

I agree with PengsPhils - it’s super easy to take classes across departments and colleges. Very few courses have major restrictions on them like you’ll encounter at many large schools. When you do run into that, it’s fairly flexible; if there are spots after the majors have signed up for their required courses, they’ll let in non-majors. My first semester I had a free space in my schedule and used it to take a drawing class that was art majors only (I was a neuroscience major), and at orientation my advisor just put me in the class with no hassle.

It’s interesting that you say Northeastern is more known for science and engineering, but I’ve seen other people on CC have the opposite impression. I mostly know those areas since I spent most of my time there, but Northeastern is not as hyper-focused of a school as say MIT. There’s a good variety of strong and interesting classes in arts/humanities/social studies that should be able to satiate your bio major daughter’s interests. She could also look into taking a minor; I considered minors in creative writing and international affairs before settling on computer science.

There are also a lot of really good clubs that could be a way to stay involved in these areas outside of courses. A lot of my really good friends came from Film Club, for example, and most of them were not majoring in anything film related.