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[quote=Anonymous]As others have pointed out there is a big variation in schools on core classes v distributions v open.  Schools like Boston College and Georgetown include religion/philosophy classes in their core given their Jesuit status.  Several of the liberal arts schools have very limited or no distribution requirements and they state that most kids take a variety of classes anyway - that's why the chose liberal arts.

I think a core curric is actually a bit antiquated.  Kids at the most selective colleges are coming in with pretty robust high school transcripts and have taken advanced level classes.  Most are also doing double majors or major/minors so have a heavy requirement load to complete the double majors.  Despite my liberal arts undergrad degree I am starting to come around to thinking that college needs to produce more specialists than generalists, so not sure that the distribution requirements serve that purpose.  The exception would be writing intensive classes - I do think that is worthwhile.  The colleges that I've seen require writing intensive classes (usually 2) have those spread out among the departments though- it does not need to be an english or history class.

I forget if Hopkins has a core - it should be on their website though.[/quote]

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