<p>What are the main differences between Arts and Sciences and Oxford?</p>
<p>I know that Atlanta is VERY urban, but how urban is Oxford, Georgia? I'm from NYC, so I hope that if I have to move out the campus will be located in an urban or at least suburban area.</p>
<p>I'm interested in Chemical Engineering, and Biochemical research also.</p>
<p>People have been telling me that Emory is a liberal arts school, but exactly how liberal are they? No core at all, totally free, or there are some limits. I enjoy having a core curriculum, but I am not against no core.</p>
<p>The Oxford campus is a smaller, tight-knit school. It is not, however, “urban” in any sense of the word.</p>
<p>Also, Emory does not have its own engineering program (besides a joint PhD with Georgia Tech in Biomedical engineering). Learn more here: [Dual</a> Degree Programs in Engineering with Georgia Institute of Technology | Emory College | Atlanta, GA](<a href=“Error 404: Page Not Found”>Error 404: Page Not Found)</p>
<p>“Liberal arts” does not mean that we lack a core curriculum or that there is any less of one.</p>
<p>Emory is suburban, I guess you’ll want to consider CAS. It has GERs but it’s moreso a set of distribution requirements as opposed to a core. It’s not difficult to handle.</p>
<p>Actually, I wouldn’t say that. That isn’t completely true. Does Oxford have a heavier, more innovative liberal arts emphasis? Yes, but I feel that both employ it as an approach. What do you think CAS is? It’s a liberal arts entity. A place with so many darned interdisciplinary programs and initiatives can’t go w/o being considered liberal arts intensive to a large degree (do you see many non-liberal arts oriented places doing things like having Tibetan monks study science at the institution?). The liberal arts emphasis even reflects in the sciences to some degree even though, again, we’re not as huge about inquiry-based or service based. Such a heavy emphasis on that is something kind of unique to Oxford (some Emory profs. are trying, but they don’t comprise the majority yet. They merely perhaps comprise, more than the normal CAS w/in a research U). I wouldn’t even consider Oxford a normal LAC.</p>
<p>That’s kind of like saying: Swarthmore is liberal arts intensive but Chicago isn’t. Just because one does it differently or has more of it doesn’t mean the other isn’t qualified to claim itself to be LA intensive. In these cases, the bar is set high. One falls short, but could still claim to be pretty good to excellent at doing the same. The other is merely “more excellent”</p>
<p>Just because it doesn’t describe itself as a liberal arts institution or as having that emphasis doesn’t mean it doesn’t. Colleges market and gimmick themselves in different ways. Of course a campus as small as Oxford (and one that may have a harder time attracting students) would try harder to trump up the fact that it is somehow much different from say, a larger university. The trick is the way they do their liberal arts approach not the fact that they are liberal arts intensive. I can show you many CASes( especially among top 20s) w/in research U campuses that are liberal arts intensive. Given that Emory has excellent English, Polisci, and history programs it shouldn’t have to stress that it views LA as important. You don’t get a neuroscience and behavioral biology major w/more than 1/2 of its classes lying in psychology or anthropology in an entity that doesn’t stress liberal arts seriously. It just doesn’t happen.</p>
<p>Seriously? You let marketing do the talking. That’s crap and you know it has the potential to be uninformative or even deceptive.</p>
<p>CAS describes itself as characteristic of a liberal arts entity w/the RESOURCES of a research institution. Whether or not it said flat out whether it is a liberal arts college doesn’t matter. My 3 years experience tells me that the self-prescribed description of its nature is pretty much on point despite what you perceive from their marketing. Now, if I were in the b-school or the nursing, I would have a different experience (actually I wouldn’t, most of them go through CAS for 2 years), but I’m in CAS. I’m willing to bet one wouldn’t see a huge difference between some of the more social science/humanities oriented courses (maybe w/exception of intros. and even those are conducted quite well, requiring many writing assignments and heavy reading load, and breakout sessions when necessary) at Oxford and main campus. After looking at syllabi, I would even dare claim that some of the science profs. at Emory are even better at doing it than their counterparts (only weakness is CAS labs). Some of the gen. biology professors for example, use a similar, but more rigorous approach than the Oxford counterpart despite the 70-90 person class (mainly a heavier caseload and thus more out of class work/writing). The same could be said for organic chemistry (which is nearly a joke at Oxford. It is apparently so easy, that no curve is needed b/c averages are so high. Many are shocked when dealing w/the likes of Weinschenk, Soria, or Morkin on main campus). The primary differences I see in the sciences is how they approach math and physics.</p>
<p>Just saying and…agreed. Pass judgement once you are at either of the campuses if you choose to attend Emory in any capacity (assuming you aren’t already). Basically, let the experience do the talking.</p>
<p>Emolry College and Oxford College will each feel very different. Oxford is smaller, more structured and has fewer distractions. Which one appeals to you as a place to start?</p>