<p>Being able to write well is very important, even in the sciences.</p>
<p>But I will say that if your son is careful about scheduling he can minimize the amount he has to write. The only GERs that it will be any trouble to avoid writing for are the three 4s, 5, and 7. GER7 can be knocked out with philosophy. There’s a decent amount of writing in that course, but it’s not like writing english papers. If you take it as your freshman seminar you’ve also fulfilled that writing requirement. Intro to Archaeology is a 4B and all multiple choice. I don’t think either of the intro to art history classes has significant writing either, and those are both 4A and 5. So it is possible to get through all of your GERs with very little writing, leaving only your major writing requirement, which does not have to be well written. The paper I wrote to fulfill the math requirement was mostly figures and equations.</p>
<p>I don’t recommend your son do this. I learned a lot in classes with ridiculously long papers, and I don’t regret taking them. But it is possible.</p>