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Except you are incorrect.  Many LAC have core requirements.[/quote]

Can you cite an example?  I mean a bona fide example, where all students spend the first two years taking a common set of required courses, before they declare a major.[/quote]

Bard. All freshmen take a one month intensive humanities and social thought course called Language and Thinking before the start of classes. And another one-month course called Citizen Science in January. On top of that, they all take a two-semester freshman tutorial their first year before declaring a major. To cite but one example.[/quote]

Yeah, lots of schools have these half-hearted attempts at a common core curriculum, where all students take a class or two together.  But a bona fide common core curriculum consists of two years worth of required courses, such as the old common core at the University of Chicago.[/quote]

As stated above, the Great Books programs you're thinking of date back only to the 30s. Before that the elective system prevailed, going back to after the Civil War. Before that, everyone studied Latin, Greek and theology. So no Dante, no Shakespeare, etc.[/quote]

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