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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You say it like these are the only types of courses offered at Wesleyan. We all know that's not true.

And anyway, what's so bad about taking 1-2 of these courses during four years in which you will take a total of 32 semesters' worth of courses? There is plenty of time to also take programming 100 through programming 450 and also Physics 100 through Physics 475 if you want. [/quote]

Plenty of time for those courses at Wesleyan since Shakespeare is optional for English majors, as is study of the American founding and Civil War for history majors.  That might be considered rigorous compared to Amherst, which no longer maintains a core curriculum or even distribution requirements. Apart from completing a major, students need only take a First-Year Seminar on a topic such as “Reading Gender,” or “Eros and Insight.” Everything else—including math, science, foreign languages, American history, and all of Western civ—is optional. English majors can skip the history of the language, Shakespeare, even all of British or American literature—instead mastering film, creative writing, or cultural and gender studies

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Way to miss the point, big guy (or big gal). The point is, the mere existence of "Eros and Gender" doesn't prevent your kid from taking 100% science courses if she so desires.  https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/first_year_seminars/courses    Oh, look! Amherst also offer first year seminars on Genes, Genomes and Society, Mind & Brain, and Evolution.   :roll:

(PP, I didn't assume this person was a conservative. This person reasons like that nasty European poster, i.e.  badly.) [/quote]

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