required curriculum-pros and cons????

ariesathena
Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:17:44 +0000

I do think that there’s enough offerings so that the core isn’t bad (but then again, I was an engineer!). About 1/3 of students double-major.

The foreign language is the most extensive of the cores, but a student can do something like take three semesters of Spanish and three semesters of Japanese. You can also take culture classes to make up the difference (3 of 6), and they let you do things like Roman literature in translation for that. The best thing to do is for your son to, before selecting classes, find all of the (very extensive) options for satisfying his core requirements.