<p>I am going to BU this coming fall as a prospective English major and im pretty sure i want to do the core curriculum. i have some questions though:</p>
<p>1) is the CC like taking the normal big classes along with smaller seminars (how many in the additional seminars) and what is that atmosphere like?</p>
<p>2) does the CC make it easier to connect with professors/get feedback?</p>
<p>3) is there a more intense workload/time commitment?</p>
<p>4) Can I specifically use the CC to take care of a writing seminar requirement to advance to a higher lever class?</p>
<p>Thanks for your help!</p>
<p>Just an FYI, Jim Winn - who I think still heads the department - is the best professor I ever had. He was so good that 20+ years later, our class decided to give him a present. (This was not at BU but ask him if he has his “Paper on S**t” - which, btw, is about The Dunciad by Alexander Pope.)</p>
<p>I didn’t take Core, but as I’m approaching senior year I kind of wish I would have. I feel like I missed out on some solid liberal arts learnin.</p>
<p>Other CCers can correct me if I’m wrong, but I think Core has one big lecture a week and several smaller discussion seminars. It is easier to connect with profs because the discussions are led by them and are smaller, but you’ll probably have to make a bit of an effort to get to know them personally. </p>
<p>Wouldn’t say there’s necessarily more of a time commitment, but you will likely be doing a lot more writing. Core students sometimes have at least 1 paper a week. If you’re an English major, this is no big.</p>
<p>I’m not sure, but looking at the bulletin it doesn’t appear as though you can get into a higher level class. All English majors are required to take EN 220, which can be substituted for the divisional WR150. But it doesn’t look like you can skip out of EN 220. Call the dept to be sure though…</p>
<p>And James Winn is still around…he’s head of the Humanities Foundation now though. Might ask him about that paper…</p>
<p>Tell him I learned to write. </p>
<p>We had a double credit intensive seminar on the comic tradition. I was soooo underprepared compared to some of the genius / academic types. Couldn’t write for s**t.</p>
<p>1) is the CC like taking the normal big classes along with smaller seminars (how many in the additional seminars) and what is that atmosphere like?</p>
<p>don’t know, i did divisional studies and personally loved it because i got to take courses in humanities and social sciences that i had an interest in.</p>
<p>2) does the CC make it easier to connect with professors/get feedback?</p>
<p>probably not since they’re huge lectures, but you can always talk to professors after class or go to their office hours to connect and get feedback.</p>
<p>3) is there a more intense workload/time commitment?</p>
<p>i’d say no since divisional studies fulfill the same requirements. i never got below an a- in any of my divisional requirements because i enjoyed the classes so much that studying became easy, so i’d say that cc would have to be somewhere around the same.</p>
<p>4) Can I specifically use the CC to take care of a writing seminar requirement to advance to a higher lever class?</p>
<p>probably not, BU is really serious about the writing requirement as well as the foreign language requirement. if you do really well on the buwaa at your orientation you can get placed into wr150, but that’s very rare and most people start at wr 100. take it seriously though, because if you really mess up you can be put into wr 98 or 99 and have to still work your way up to wr 150.</p>
<p>I think it would be easier to connect with profs, though, because they teach the small discussion sections too. In other big lectures it’s teaching fellows.</p>
<p>And taking both years of Core satisfies your WR100/WR150 requirement. I thought she just meant as an English major would it count as a base level class</p>
<p>yeah, im hoping in general to avoid entry level classes in english and psychology because im taking ap exams in both subjects. i dont want to place out since i want to double major or maybe major/minor in those subjects. anyone know if a 4 could do that?</p>