So How's That Open Curriculum going

Corbett
Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:13:53 +0000

There are other factors contributing to why Amherst does not graduate more students with science majors; it is not the curriculum.

OK, I’m open-minded. What are those “other factors” that you refer to ?

Most people would regard (for example) Amherst and Williams as rather similar schools in most respects – apart, of course, from the difference in curricular requirements. Yet it seems undeniable that Amherst students are much less likely to major in math or science than Williams students. If this has nothing to do with the difference in curricular requirements, then what other factors are responsible ?