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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you everyone. Rural is really not her vibe ! But the open curriculum colleges seem to be in rural places. We have to think about priorities.[/quote]

Rochester (UofR), Middletown (Wes), Poughkeepsie (Vassar): not rural[/quote]
Wes is not open curriculum.[/quote]

OK, look. I get that you have a bone to pick with Wes on this. But every open curriculum school interprets it differently. There is no professional accreditation agency validating that a school is or is not open curriculum. Wes says it is, and it is widely acknowledged to be.

Your objection is duly noted, however.[/quote]
9 required courses for some majors, to do a thesis, or to graduate with honors is not open curriculum. No school making that claim is even close to those requirements. No rational individual can call that an open curriculum. We can argue about where to draw the line with 2-3 courses; not 9.[/quote]

LOL, I can and will call it open curriculum—because there is no formal definition, and (most importantly) you can graduate without completing this requirement. So, we’ll agree to disagree.[/quote]

IMO, Open curriculum is anywhere that the student gets to pick the specific courses to take to meet the "core curriculum".  Wes sounds like that. Just like URochester---your major covers one area, then you need 3 courses each (or 3 and 2 in engineering) for the other two areas.  Only "required course" is freshman writing.  Otherwise you get to pick the specific courses you take outside of your major reqs.  Nobody is going to have a truly open curriculum where you get to just take whatever courses you want and graduate (or at least not anywhere meaningful).  You will still need to meet reqs for your major.  But this is open.  Unlike most schools where you are told: take 1 Eng, 1 Writing, 1 math, 1 science, 1 theology, 1 philosophy, 1 Psychology, 1 X, 1 Y, 1 Z, etc.  Or you have to pick your courses for core curriculum from a specified list.  That is not open. [/quote]

I went to Brown. I had requirements as part of my major, but no other requirements -- no core, no distribution requirements, no expectations that I take anything other than the required number of credits. That's an open curriculum. A distribution requirement allows more choices than core requirements, but is still not open.[/quote]

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