curricula

<p>I was recently asked a question about this by a cousin who will be applying to schools next year and I had to admit I didn’t know much</p>

<p>Can you guys help me group a list of good schools according to curricular philosophy? For example,</p>

<p>Open Curriculum: Brown, Amherst
Distribution Requirements: Dartmouth, Stanford
Core Curriculum: Columbia, BU</p>

<p>Also, the “Distribution Requirements” category is pretty broad. Are you aware of schools that have broader requirements verses more stringent ones?</p>

<p>you can add princeton, williams, yale, and swarthmore, to the distribution requirement list, although you're right, the requirements are different at each school.</p>

<p>williams - three divisions that require three courses each: language and the arts, social studies, and science/mathematics. plus, you have to fulfill a "peoples and cultures" requirement, a "quantitative/formal reasoning" requirement, and a writing requirement. </p>

<p>swarthmore - like williams, swat has three areas that each require at least three courses: humanities, natural science and engineering, and social sciences. there is also a writing requirement. </p>

<p>yale: their system is a little more complicated, but basically, each year you must have a certain number of courses completely in one of the four groups:
group I - languages and literature
group II - humanities/arts/music type things
group III - the social sciences
group IV - math and science</p>

<p>princeton: has quite a few areas that require coursework. you are required to take one freshman writing seminar, and fulfill a foreign language requirement (i think all the above school require a language competency thing too). then, you need one course in the following areas: epistemology and cognition, ethical thought and moral values, historical analysis, and quantitative analysis. you need to complete two courses in literature and arts, science and tech, and social analysis. </p>

<p>and in terms of schools with core curriculums, uchicago has a very well known core.</p>

<p>hope that helps.</p>

<p>awesome, that's very helpful. thanks a lot.</p>