<p>Hey, I'm a rising senior, thinking about applying to Columbia ED. I already visited, and fell in love with the campus, and the core curriculum has also been a thing that stood out to me. I thought it was really interesting, I just want to know what some people who actually have taken it to tell me their opinions. Did you guys think it was good, or a waste of time, where other classes could have been taken?</p>
<p>The most strict part of the core is CC/lithum and your enjoyment of it depends on two things: a) if you enjoy reading/writing/classics b) your teacher. I’m a math major, so reading and writing really aren’t my thing. I really liked the books in LitHum - fun, classic stories like Aeneid/Odyssey, some Greek plays, Crime and Punishment… For my first semester of CC, I had the ****tiest teacher who was a newbie teacher and I thought that I hated CC so much. It’s much more philosophy/politics which obviously aren’t related to my interests. But then my second semester I switched teachers and I absolutely LOVED the course. The teacher really helped us to understand the main points that the authors were trying to make and how it related to the world as a whole. We also did some cooler philosophers second semester like Freud and Darwin (Science <3). So yeah - get a good teacher. For someone like me who’s a math major, I was really glad that I was able to “expand my horizons” and learn more about cool subjects that I would have never thought about taking. The fact that everyone you know is also enrolled in the same class makes it easy and fun. Not a waste of time at all.</p>
<p>Otherwise -
Language - easy, just take something you like. You probably will have completed most of it in HS. I took French, and I’m glad that now I can sort of speak a second language.
Science - easy, you can literally take anything from Psych to Math to count for this requirement. Check it: [Science</a> Requirement | Columbia College](<a href=“Columbia College Bulletin < Columbia College | Columbia University”>Columbia College Bulletin < Columbia College | Columbia University)
Music and Art Hum - I haven’t taken them yet, sorry, but I hear that again, get good teachers and they are generally easy and fun. You get to go to museums and see operas and stuff.
Global Core - again, there are so many classes available for this that you really can’t go wrong. Take Sex in the Tropics oh yeah. Check it: <a href=“http://www.college.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/global_core.pdf[/url]”>http://www.college.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/global_core.pdf</a>
Oh yeah UWriting and FroSci. UWriting is very time consuming. You’ll get through it with your peers. It’s hard to do well in this class, but I definitely think that my writing improved and it was helpful for writing lithum/cc papers. Frosci is the biggest joke. Please see the Emlyn Hughes incident for an example. <a href=“HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost”>HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost;