Does a Perfect College Exist?

[ucbalumnus]

@kwexell

The classes at this school are abysmally simple.

The issue is that there are over 14 required classes just for journalism within the journalism degree, excluding any other journalism-specific classes such as our two econ classes, poli-sci class, and our 12 credits of a foreign language. This leaves literally no room in your class schedule to take other things that interest you.

14 journalism courses + 2 economics courses + 1 political science course + 3 foreign language courses = 20 courses. If you college is on a semester system with typically 4 courses per semester (i.e. 32 courses in 8 semesters), that leaves space for 12 other courses.

Of course, if the courses are “abysmally simple”, you can take 5 or 6 per semester, which would give you a total 40 to 48 courses in 8 semesters. Then after 20 courses of major requirements, you would have 20 to 28 courses of other things that interest you.