<p>I would agree that the degree of “breadth” requirements beyond the science/math area for physics majors varies by LAC, but most have more than Brown and Amherst.</p>
<p>Mudd is a little unusual. They have an extensive technical core requirements, and also require students to do a “concentration of courses in a single discipline or in an interdisciplinary field chosen from the distinct areas of liberal arts study offered at The Claremont Colleges”. This has to be in a humanities, social science, or art field.</p>
<p>Then they also take their major courses and some additional humanities, social science, and art courses.</p>
<p>Their specific mission statement is:</p>
<p>“Harvey Mudd College seeks to educate engineers, scientists, and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities and the social sciences so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the impact of their work on society.”</p>
<p>So they have very specifically set out to do something more than a pure STEM college approach.</p>