<p>How many classes is it? Will it make it hard to double-major? Does it feel like high school? Isn't 5 classes a semester overwhelming?</p>
<p>The core is one of my favorite aspects of academics at Fordham. It provides a thorough liberal arts education that really improves writing and critical thinking abilities. It does not feel like high school at all. The core doesn’t really make it difficult to double major because depending on you major, some core classes can count for major requirements. I know a lot of students who are double majoring.</p>
<p>I didn’t find five classes overwhelming and I don’t think most Fordham students do. I think with five classes you are getting more bang for your buck than at schools where you only take four classes a semester.</p>
<p>The core is 18 classes. And I hate it. </p>
<p>I find it too constraining… But I am also in the most class intense major (International Studies, 13 classes) on regional track/double major. </p>
<p>I took four classes last semester and five this semester. Five classes is DEFINITELY better. Getting a lot more out of it and I feel like I am learning more/not wasting my $$ or time.</p>
<p>The general rule is to do 3 core and 2 major classes per semester.</p>
<p>I want to do IR too. Can you tell me how much of the core overlaps with IR?</p>
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<p>and do APs satisfy any of them?</p>
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<p>What is the core? I read the thing on the website, but it still makes no sense. Like it sense I need 2 English classes, but then says I have to take 3 when I go into detail (the third is something called rhetoric). Can someone tell me exactly how much I have to take (excluding language)</p>
<p>are you rose hill or lincoln center?</p>
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<p>Sure. I’ll just give the whole run down of the program. The IS program is 13 hours. 5 core classes, 6 electives, and 2 language courses. </p>
<p>The five core are Intro to International Studies, International Politics, International Law, International Economy, and Senior Seminar. Those can count towards your advanced social science, politics, etc, core. </p>
<p>The six elections are for your concentration: International Track (general, most courses), Middle East & North Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe. Personally, I think the international track is a waste because it is just general courses, where as a track lets you study a region. (Which then sets you up for grad school when you can specialize in a specific part of that region.) </p>
<p>Note: A major in Middle Eastern Studies requires 8 courses. IS requires 6 for that international track. Tack on two more classes and you have a double major. 
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<p>The language courses are courses beyond exit level - so level 5 and 6. But those can be anything - writing, electives, etc. It is best to take a language related to your region. And then you can study abroad, perfect the language, and then take the last two classes to complete your IS requirements. (And, then you’d be 1 class away from a minor in that language…) </p>
<p>The history requirement can easily fulfill the IS regional elective. For me, I am going to take Understanding Historical Change: Middle East and it will cover both the core AND double major/regional track. </p>
<p>Let me know if you have any other questions. It is also VERY advised to start immediately because it is such a huge program. I can give you teacher advice, too. :)</p>
<p>Wow, monoclide, that’s the best help I’ve ever gotten on CC. Thanks!</p>
<p>You say that 5 core fulfill my social science and politics university cores. Do they fulfill all of them?</p>
<p>How many free classes (classes that you took just for fun) were you able to have?</p>
<p>Do you like Fordham? I have a fear that the intensive core would just make me feel like I’m in high school. Do you have that feeling? Also, are IR internships easy to get (since we are competing with NYU and Columbia students)?</p>
<p>And if you have an opinion, I am trying to decide between Fordham LC and NYU LSP. If you don’t know what LSP is, then disregard this question. </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Do you have to take the same core for all majors? If you had a business major, would you have to take those 18 classes? That is alot of core classes.</p>
<p>business students have a smaller liberal arts core (13 courses) and then an additional business core (12 courses): [Gabelli</a> School of Business - Curriculum](<a href=“Fordham University”>Fordham University)</p>
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<p>There are only two or so politics/social science ones, so they will fill them up. I highly suggest taking the Intro to Politics (with Toulouse) and Environmental Justice as your EPs. You won’t be able to select that until summer and they come in a bundle. Everyone else I know selected their first EP as the one they want (say like theatre, or history in so and so), but then they never looked at the second EP in the bundle and now are in terrible Shakespeare classes or Agrian culture. It’s bad for them.</p>
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<p>I am taking Cultural Anthropology for fun. But the class is a waste, really. I may take some classes later on that are on a P/F basis and count as electives. This applies to most colleges, but you can take classes that don’t count as anything towards the core and your major, but you can sign up for a Pass/Fail basis. You pretty much take the class without having to worry about it hurting your GPA. You are more likely going to put major/core classwork above it, so you can skip an assignment here and there. Mainly, on a P/F, you are just sitting there and a C will yield a P and it won’t have any affect on your GPA. </p>
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<p>The intensive core doesn’t give off the high school vibe. It sounds very constraining, but you can make it work. There are several options for each requirement. </p>
<p>Competing with NYU and Columbia - age old question. I have a friend at NYU, in Int Relations, and says she had an internship with one of each of us. She said the Fordham girl was absolutely brilliant, the Columbia one was an idiot, and she was the mere middle. I had an internship last semester at a political consulting firm in Soho - I was one of a few interns: Fordham (me), Princeton, NYU Grad, Columbia. (Sidenote, Princeton was at the Woodrow Wilson School, which is the best IR school in the country.) And my internship for over the summer is an Israeli organization that promotes peace in the Arab-Israeli conflict and there are three other interns. All of them are from Columbia and I am from Fordham. </p>
<p>In essence, it doesn’t matter which school you go to, it just matters what you’ve done and what you have under your belt. I am sure some internships have skipped my application just because I am from Fordham (and they want Columbia), but it clearly didn’t stop me from getting two. Internships look for YOU. Not your school. </p>
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<p>I am going to assume that you were LSPed for CAS. With that being said, I DO see some concerns in terms of IR. IR at NYU is an honors program that comes out of the Politics department. NYU students apply their sophomore year to be in the program. Internal and external transfers can apply junior year, but it is a case-by-case basis. I would contact an NYU advisor about LSP and getting into IR. However, you can always double major in Politics and a foreign area. </p>
<p>If I were you, I’d pick NYU LSP over Fordham LC just because NYU has stronger programs, more students, better location, and a better name. There’s a difference in pride between Fordham and NYU students. Fordham students mainly are rejects from other schools where as NYU students (a majority of them, at least) are at their first choice school. </p>
<p>PM me if you want a more detailed view of Fordham. I just don’t want to post it on their forums.</p>
<p>Slightly different question… what does “SECTION” in the class description stand for?
For example COMM 1010 has sections C03, L01, L02.
THX!</p>
<p>Zuzanna, that just means the different class times offered. L01 for example could be mondays and wednesdays at 1, while L02 is tuesdays and fridays at 10. But they’re both COMM 1010.</p>
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<p>Just a note to anyone reading this…monoclide is transferring to NYU. He’s certainly not alone in his preference for NYU over Fordham but his characterization of the entire Fordham student body could easily be based on his own initial rejection. My S is surely not the only Fordham student who is at his first choice school. Nor is he the only Fordham student who chose it over NYU and is happy with his choice.</p>
<p>There are just as many similarities between Fordham and NYU as there are differences and really its a matter of personal preference. It doesn’t necessarily make one school better than the other but it does perhaps make one a better fit. We are lucky to have such great choices in NYC. :)</p>
<p>Thank you ramfan2013!</p>
<p>Totally agree with you Sandkmom. My daughter looked at NYU, but her first choice, and the only school she even appied to, was Fordham. Very different atmosphere between the two schools. I can see why NYU appeals to so many, but Fordham is NOT a place full of NYU rejects. My daughter can’t wait to get there! She has great enough grades to go anywhere, even the Ivies, but it was Fordham that had everything she wanted.</p>
<p>The sections refer to the different classes and the number of classes available. For example, R01 refers to a class at Rose Hill and the number is just to keep track of the number of that particular class. L01 would refer to a class at Lincoln center.</p>