<p>I tried to find them on the Rice website but I wasn't sure where to look. Anyway what are Rice's general course requirements?</p>
<p>course requirements for High School or College? They use a distribution system that requires to take any 4 courses from each school (School of Sciences, School of Humanities) in order to meet graduation- this means that they dont require you to take certain courses/classes in order to graduate and you can choose whatever classes within each group/school that you like (ie. Math 101 , etc.). High School wise, i think it's 4 years of English,Math,Science + Labs, and Social Studies/History. Also they would like 3+ years of a foriegn language and electives associated with your pursuing interest/major in college.</p>
<p>Sorry for the confusion I meant requirements to graduate from Rice.</p>
<p>its around 125~ hours to graduate and like in my post above , thats all that is required.</p>
<p>Depends on your major. You need to go into the department you are interested in and check the degree requirements. As iambored10 mentioned, the distribution is required for everyone, as are 2 PEs. Distribution</a> Credit | Office of the Registar | Rice University</p>
<p>I'll try to lay it out as best I can here, so you don't have to go to the site. Every student has to complete the following:
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[<em>]2 LPAP's (Lifetime Physical Activity Program...i.e., P.E.). These are a wide range of courses, which are graded pass-fail, and do not count as any time in your schedule (for the first two courses...after that they're letter-graded and count as 1-hour courses). Thus, you could take Latin Dance and Soccer, which meet probably two times a week for an hour each, and you'd be done.
[</em>]University Writing Requirement. Before coming you will take a writing test, and the score will be available during Oweek. If you pass or low-pass, you will forget this requirement ever existed. If you fail, you have to take a writing course (COMM 103, I think???) sometime during your Rice career in order to graduate. You can do it second semester, senior year, if you want to.
[<em>]Distribution Requirement. this is divided into 3 Distributions, creatively named Distribution I, Distribution II, and Distribution III. You must have 12 hours in each distribution to graduate. AP credit does count toward filling this requirement, provided your AP lines up with a Distribution course. Many courses fall under one of the distributions, and it doesn't matter which ones you take (they can even be in your major), as long as you take a total of 12 hours in at least two different departments. Oh yes...you can also pass-fail distribution classes. Thank goodness... Here's a general description of each, which isn't completely accurate, but gives an idea of what they're like.
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[li]Distribution I-comprises the humanities: philosophy, English, languages, arts, music, etc.[/li][</em>]Distribution II-comprises the social sciences: history, sociology, psychology, political science, anthropology, etc.
[li]Distribution III-comprises the sciences: engineering, mathematics, science, etc.[/li][/ul]
[li]Major requirement. Majors vary as to how many hours they require within their major. Think roughly on the order of 24-30 hours total. You'll probably have to take specific courses within that number. You also may have other courses required outside of that total (like for engineers, physics, chemistry, etc.). All told, you have to have 120 hours to graduate. For some degrees, you have to have as much as about 135 hours (some engineering degrees). In order to get a double degree (which is different from a double major, as a double degree would be, say, a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Arts), you have to have 30 hours more than the minimum number of hours for one of your degrees (For example, doubling in computer science--128ish hours--and mathematics--120 hours--would require 120 hours, the minimum, plus 30 hours, because it's a double degree, so 150 hours). [/li][/list]</p>
<p>What all is said and done, it's a really easy core requirement, because the big part is the distribution, and because that's so flexible, it's really easy to get done.</p>
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<p>This is the most thorough resource for graduation requirements, but it's rather fussy to read. If it helps, Rice is incredible when it comes to taking APs. They took almost all of mine and now I theoretically have a year's worth of hours before I even walk in.</p>
<p>Rice will "take" AP scores - but they don't all count for distribution credit, so not all of them are very useful for meeting graduation requirements. JFYI!</p>
<p>D came to Rice with 41 credit hours from AP. In her case, English AP's did not count for distribution, only credit hours. But she was finished with the balance of distribution requirements after her 3rd semester.</p>
<p>maysixxmom,</p>
<p>How did you come to know that your D's credits are not counted towards distribution requirements? My D's (freshman) unofficial transcript shows 43 credit hours from her APs, but it doesn't say anything about how many of those Rice will consider towards distribution credits.</p>
<p>My daughter is also a freshman this year and she got the information about which of her AP credits were distribution credits during the o-week academic advising last week.</p>
<p>Here's the list for distribution credit for APs.
<a href="http://registrar.rice.edu/uploadedFiles/PDFs/AP_and_IB_Credit/2008-2009%20AP%20EXAM%20LISTING.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://registrar.rice.edu/uploadedFiles/PDFs/AP_and_IB_Credit/2008-2009%20AP%20EXAM%20LISTING.pdf</a> :)</p>
<p>Thanks anxiousmom for the info.</p>
<p>will ap credits like econ or lit which don’t fill distribution requirements and won’t be needed for my major serve any purpose?</p>
<p>just credits towards graduation. you need a minimum of 120 credits. if your major is 60 hours and you finish your distribution, these credits help towards getting to 120</p>
<p>seriously. what is with the ancient threads being bumped??? Didn’t notice that till now</p>