So How's That Open Curriculum going

Corbett
Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:09:09 +0000

Finally, the # of majors in hard sciences at these schools doesn’t necessarily correspond to the concept that English & History majors rarely or never take science courses at these schools.

No, but that seems to be the way that it works at Amherst. The info in Amherst’s latest accreditation report (see post #19 above) indicates that only 56% of students in the Classes of 2002-2006 took a math or computer science course, and only 44% took a lab science course. Those figures include the math/science majors, so obviously the numbers would be even lower for majors in other disciplines.

Based on the available data, it would seem that Amherst has both a low number of math/science majors (at least relative to other top LACs), and relative disinterest in math/science among the humanities majors.