Questions about being an engineering major

ParentOfIvyHope
Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:41:55 +0000

^^^: The General Institute Requirements at DD’s college including those 18 courses are required by everyone including any humanities major.

Some requirements as you listed might overlap with major requirements specially with engineering/Physics majors.



What is a “restrictive elective” ? At my daughter’s school, that was an elective within the major field.

Restrictive Electives can also be from major related or can provide a little more breadth depending on how a student wants to progress.



Does that “8” mean eight credits…because if it does…that means that for a STEM major at your daughter’s school, only 8 credits of non-stem courses are considered core.



There are 8 courses (One per semester) restriction on the humanities courses, that’s why it is sometime joked there that one learn more humanities than a humanities major. Each student have to pick one area of humanities to concentrate in (at least 3 courses).