<p>Hey people, what's happening; have not visited here for a while.</p>
<p>A question came up elsewhere about the relative degree to which one can achieve a "liberal arts education" as an engineering student, and I was wondering what this situation is at Cornell.</p>
<p>How many courses/ credits can an engineering major take outside of the engineering college? Versus how many total needed to graduate?</p>
<p>And how many of these are ther required physics/math chemistry courses?</p>
<p>Anybody have this info?</p>
<p>i dont have the info off the top of my head, but go to the engineering website. Then, look for graduation requirements, it should list required classes and so forth. For ILR at least, "free electives" mean you can take these classes anywhere at Cornell. </p>
<p>I know somebody will have the exact answer, but this is my gutsy stab (not to be confused with other campus stabbings) at the question, and what I'd do for an answer if he/she/it was an ILRie.</p>
<p>you are required to take 6 "liberal studies" classes. but you can fit in as many as you want around the engineering requirements as electives. This all kind of depends on ap credit, how many classes you take per semester, your major, etc. There is no limit to the number of elective credits you take, but the amount that your schedule allows might vary.<br>
all of the math, chem and physics are technically outside of the college of engineering, but they have these classes set up in such a way where they are almost entirely composed of engineers. from what I heard, they do this to make the pre-med kids feel better, b/c engineering students ruin their curve by doing well in these classes.</p>
<p>I guess the better way to put it, then, is how many classes/credits are required to be taken actually in engineering.</p>
<p>FWIW, in my day pre-med and science majors in the other colleges were fully up to doing their own curve-ruining.</p>