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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Amherst has a lovely town filled with all kinds of shops, unique ethnic restaurants literally a few steps from campus. I would hardly call that isolated.[/quote] +1. Amherst is also part of a 5-college consortium with U Mass, Smith, Holyoak and Hampshire. There's lots going on in the area.[/quote] Amherst has given up requiring a liberal arts education of students. The college 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. Many other disciplines are likewise lax.[/quote]
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