<p>Hello! I just recently committed to BU as a freshman for the fall. I will be majoring in International Relations in CAS and I also might want to double major/minor in business, political science or Spanish.</p>
<p>I am thinking about doing the core curriculum because I hear the classes are smaller and you become close with a small group of people and you have great professors. But I feel that it might just be a waste of time for me to take so many humanities classes when I know that I want to be on the business/politics track of the IR major.</p>
<p>Can anyone tell me more about how the core curriculum works for an IR major? Thanks!</p>
<p>I hear terrible things about Core.
I think Divisional Studies will give you more freedom on what you wanna take.</p>
<p>Don’t take Core. You can choose a better variety of classes with Divisional Studies. Plus, your bigger lecture classes will be broken down into discussion sections anyway so you will be with a smaller group of people. Most people I know did not like Core.</p>
<p>Hey I’m an IR Major! Currently doing the Divisional Studies and will be a sophomore next year. It’s not too bad. Haven’t heard great things about core. My advisor for IR told us at orientation to not do core if that means anything.</p>
<p>Thank you everyone for the very helpful replies! I have never heard of Divisional Studies before though, would anyone care to tell me more about it? Thanks :)</p>
<p>I think divisional studies is when you pick your own elective classes.
But you have to take 1 natural science, 1 lab science, 1 social science, 2 writing classes, 1 history class… or something like that, I believe. So you have more freedom than in Core, where everyone takes the same classes.
(I’m an incoming freshman btw so this might not be 100% but you get the gist)</p>