So How's That Open Curriculum going

Corbett
Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:36:55 +0000

How long has Amherst had open curriculum? Judging by the table referenced in the above post, which goes back to 1980, there doesn’t seem to be a significant change in numbers of individual majors in math and sciences since 1980 to 2009.

I’m not an expert on Amherst history, but most open curriculums were products of the 60s and 70s. They were kind of the rage at the time

The 1960s is [url=http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/amherst/ma142_bioghist.html]apparently[/url] the correct time frame:

Amherst College is currently one of the few American colleges to have an open curriculum, without distribution requirements. However, this curriculum was only put in place beginning in the 1960s. Before that, Amherst had a traditional curriculum, with various requirements for graduation.