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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]
Major requirements don't negate open curriculum. I don't think you understand what open curriculum means in higher ed context.  It's not a total free for all.[/quote]
If you had followed the thread, “major requirements” refers to Wesleyan’s gen ed requirements which several majors are required to fulfill, in addition to their major requirements, and irrespective of the honors, thesis, or double-major with minor issues.

Obviously true open curriculum schools, like Brown, require a major — just nothing else. I believe Amherst is the same, but am not interested enough to look it up. Grinnell requires 1 course…

If you think an “open curriculum” is compatible with a semester or more of gen ed requirements, “I don’t think you understand what open curriculum means in higher ed context.”
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I did follow the thread. You make a lot of assumptions,  but that seems par for the course for you. Not sure why you want to die on this hill. BTW,  I have a kid who is at Brown and also accepted and strongly considered Wes and Vassar. All you had to do is mention some potential major/honors requirements.  This war on Wes is ridiculous. [/quote]

It's not a "war on Wes" to point out, accurately, that Wes has distribution requirements and therefore is not an open curriculum. It -- and many schools with distribution requirements -- is still a good school.[/quote]

I think claiming a school is duplicitous is kind of warring, no? Even when several people try to explain, you keep hammering away, like a dog with a bone on this. And a very narrow definition of open curriculum. Just give it a rest.[/quote]
You are responding to multiple posters, but we get you are the type who must have the last word.[/quote]

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