Schools with flexible (but not nonexistent) core requirements

Keilexandra
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:45:53 +0000

I love interdisciplinary studies and may well end up in an extremely interdisciplinary major (cogsci), but it is a different matter entirely than core/distribution requirements. Let’s say Student A is really interested in both English and Computer Science (aka me two years ago). There is no interdisciplinary major that combines literature and code, and it’d be rather implausible to design one. The two are very different; linguistics and CS would combine neatly, but the study of language is fundamentally different from the study of literature.

At Scripps, where a student once wrote a chemistry and French dual thesis, I was told that English/CS dual thesis would probably not be allowed because the fields are not very compatible.