Should Brown offer a 3-year BA/BS?

Catria
Sat, 26 Jan 2013 22:02:57 +0000

I knew Tufts had a core but, in that core, you have enough pieces in place to fill any holes that might arise, so perhaps Tufts’ core can deliver a solid liberal arts education. It does resemble a little what U Chicago or Columbia does, but one of the civilization courses must be about a non-Occidental one. Here’s Tufts’ core:


1 English course
1 philosophy or 1 additional English course
3 foreign language courses
3 foreign culture courses (may be used on foreign language courses; Tufts defines a foreign culture as having non-English-speaking origins)
1 non-Western civilization course (can be used to fulfill a distribution requirement or a culture requirement)
2 mathematics courses (Math 4 can be one of the two if one scores 550 or less on the Math portion of the SAT or 22 or less on the Math portion of the ACT, which almost no Jumbo will have)
2 science courses
2 humanities courses
2 arts courses
2 social science courses


IMO Tufts’ core isn’t tired by any means.