<p>1) All freshmen will take a majority of core classes with a few courses related to their major. Then after a few years their classes will be all geared towards their major?</p>
<p>2) or do you take all classes geared toward your major from the beginning? (like a freshmen EE take mostly EE classes)</p>
<p>It depends on the college. Liberal arts colleges will generally require you to take a lot of ``core classes'', whereas engineering-centric schools may only require a few, after which you can take only those classes that are related to your major.</p>
<p>Depends on both the college and the major.</p>
<p>Depends on how many electives you want to take. For example, I don't have that many gen-ed requirements because of my AP credit (only 3 courses), but I'm still only taking up to two courses in my major each semester, because I want to learn multiple languages.</p>
<p>You are going to have to take a certain number of credits in order to graduate at all.</p>
<p>You are going to have to take a smaller number of classes drawn from a range of subjects -- often you'll be taking two from list A and one from list B and so on -- in order to become an educated person.</p>
<p>You are going to have to take another collection of classes, including some where you have no option but to take a specific class, in order to demonstrate mastery of a specific subject to an acceptable level.</p>
<p>And you will be trusted, within certain limits like having to take algebra before calculus and having to pass a certain number of credit hours before taking specific classes, to figure out how you are going to do that.</p>
<p>The depends above tend to follow majors. E.g., engeneers may have a lot of classes to take before graduation, hence have to start out on the major earlier, some others (social science) may stress more breadth, hence you tend to take that stuff early then concentrate. In the end it all depends.</p>
<p>What are "core classes"? I'm a senior at Brown and I've never heard of them.</p>
<p>core classes are classes that are the "core" of the college. They are classes that just about everyone must take. They are required for any major. There are different core classes in each college, like in mine, im taking english, speech, theology(christian university) and since im going to school in new york I'm taking a discover new york class which basically teaches us about the history of new york. Dont worry there all easy A's IF you do the work.</p>
<p>Ummmm....I'm thinking that ^^ was sarcasm...</p>
<p>Brown has no core requirements (the touted "open curriculum"). I wish my school was like that!</p>
<p>I don't think my university has core classes for absolutely everything, but our engineering majors require certain classes - it's a very rigorous schedule due to prerequisites. Humanities majors are a lot more broad, like hikids said.</p>
<p>But it pretty much varies from college to college. (la la la not helpful at all)</p>
<p>My college is geared towards my major from the first year (all my classes aside from first year experience are part of the required courses for entry into vet school.)</p>
<p>at my college, core classes are know as GEs or general education requirements
usually if u have declared a major, u would take GE classes that are prerequisites of ur major as well or take the GEs that dont really associate with ur major</p>