Reply to Open curriculum colleges

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Open curriculum colleges"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just saw a poster in another thread say that Smith has gen ed requirements too, to graduate with honors…wondering which “open curriculum” schools truly are open curriculum…[/quote]

I think Vassar is. Posted about this early in the thread but will recap briefly. Students must take one "quantitative" course, one freshman writing seminar (subjects for these vary widely!) and a language -- I think the term is "proficiency" so some students probably test out of taking a language course.  So, three requirements, two of which are very flexible in themselves. The quantitative course can be math etc. but also certain social sciences classes fill that requirement, etc.

I have no idea about the "you must do X to graduate with honors" thing people are mentioning at Smith and elsewhere; my DC who graduated from Vassar never mentioned that and I never saw it on the website. Definitely DC had many friends who graduated with double majors or a major plus a minor (and DC had a major and two minors).[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics