Open curriculum

[Anonymous]

How 'open' is colleges open curriculum?

And what are some rock solid colleges offering open curriculum besides Brown?

[Anonymous]

How open will vary

Look at U Rochester

[Anonymous]

Why is open curriculum so common at liberal arts schools? Taking classes only in a preferred subject is the opposite of the liberal arts philosophy.

[Anonymous]

I went to Brown. You have to fulfill the requirements of your major, but the open curriculum means it is much easier to double major. Most students do take classes in a range of subjects. The fact that there are no general requirements means that everyone in the class wants to be there, which is great

[Anonymous]

This is a question that can be answered with a simple google search. Given the only open curriculum school you are familiar with is Brown, I suspect the other well known options may not meet your definition of rock solid. Having explored many of these schools with DC, in our experience they range from completely open to very open with a requirement to meet certain writing or computational analysis requirements which can be satisfied in a number classes across disciplines.

https://blog.collegevine.com/open-curriculum-schools-11-colleges-that-allow-students-to-direct-their-own-learning

[Anonymous]

Amherst, Johns Hopkins

[Anonymous]

Wesleyan

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a question that can be answered with a simple google search. Given the only open curriculum school you are familiar with is Brown, I suspect the other well known options may not meet your definition of rock solid. Having explored many of these schools with DC, in our experience they range from completely open to very open with a requirement to meet certain writing or computational analysis requirements which can be satisfied in a number classes across disciplines.

https://blog.collegevine.com/open-curriculum-schools-11-colleges-that-allow-students-to-direct-their-own-learning

Yep

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is open curriculum so common at liberal arts schools? Taking classes only in a preferred subject is the opposite of the liberal arts philosophy.

I don’t think it is all that common. The majority of liberal arts colleges have distribution requirements.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a question that can be answered with a simple google search. Given the only open curriculum school you are familiar with is Brown, I suspect the other well known options may not meet your definition of rock solid. Having explored many of these schools with DC, in our experience they range from completely open to very open with a requirement to meet certain writing or computational analysis requirements which can be satisfied in a number classes across disciplines.

https://blog.collegevine.com/open-curriculum-schools-11-colleges-that-allow-students-to-direct-their-own-learning

This doesnt have Vassar, Carleton, Denison, Wooster etc

[Anonymous]

It's not common at all.

[Anonymous]

Are you instate for UVA? There are two paths. Echols for Arts/sciences. And there is also one for engineering but I don’t recall the name.

In addition to no requirements outside of your major, you get priority registration with the athletes.

[Anonymous]

Hamilton, Grinnell

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is open curriculum so common at liberal arts schools? Taking classes only in a preferred subject is the opposite of the liberal arts philosophy.

Well, see, it’s not. Most follow a liberal arts education model with gen Ed’s. Open curriculum became famous because of Brown and students like to have more than one option for an education model that works like open curriculum does.

[Anonymous]

I have a kid at Brown, they seem to be good at identifying the ones that will maximize open curriculum. It is absolutely used to cover a wide range of classes very much in the liberal arts tradition, exploration and cross-discipline study is the norm.

I wish there were some easier admits that had it for my other kids.