<p>Do colleges require P.E. Courses?</p>
<p>They count towards your elective general education credits.</p>
<p>Some probably do, but they are in the minority.</p>
<p>I imagine a good amount of schools require their students to have some sort of physical activity.</p>
<p>At Rice, you do have to take 2 courses. But it is nothing like PE in high school. At college, you can take a much wider variety of courses. I took Fencing last semester. I hated PE in high school but enjoyed this a lot more.</p>
<p>Not too many schools do, but if they do you would probably not mind it, unless you hate all forms of exercise. The ones I've seen w/PE have things like scuba diving and skiing.</p>
<p>A few do, but most don't. My school offers PE courses but doesn't require them, and you can take things like EMT through the PE department.</p>
<p>i have to take a semester of PE at Case Western. It's a little different from high school in that you choose a specific activity such as soccer, swimming,tennis etc..</p>
<p>My college requries 4 PE courses for graduation, but they don't count for credit. I hated HS gym, but the classes my college offers seem really interesting.</p>
<p>I see. Do UC's require it?</p>
<p>Dude, it's not like PE is hard. All it is an easy A, if it isn't then you are out of shape.</p>
<p>I doubt that UC's require PE</p>
<p>I don't think schools require it, rather it's an elective you can take towards your general ed requirements.</p>
<p>Dickinson in PA. requires 4 half semester blocks-but you can take things like golf, rock-climbing and skiing.</p>
<p>UCs do not require PE; however, the PE classes they offer are extremely popular, since kids may try a new sport. Several highly selective colleges in the east do require a swim test and/or PE.</p>
<p>It's not uncommon to have a PE requirement...</p>
<p>As part of their general education requirements, Emory University has a PE requirement (four 1-unit courses). Also, other schools with PE degree requirements include Cornell, Colgate, Brandeis, Pomona, Claremont McKenna, Middlebury, Williams, Haverford, Bryn Mawr, Wellesley, Swarthemore, Mount Holyoke, Worcester Polytechnic Institute... Really, the list just goes on and on... check the requirements for each school you're interested in.</p>
<p>Also, other schools such as Columbia, Dartmouth and MIT not only have PE requirements but a swim test requirement (normally a swim class will do the trick, even if you've never done a stroke in your life).</p>
<p>At Dartmouth PE ranged from snowboarding, to tennis, to yoga, to jewerly-making. Basically its more of an EC requirement, I know people who didn't do anything physical and coasted through on things like meditation or acting.</p>
<p>My D school has a requirement of 6 PE classes ( 1/2 credit per semester)
THey also offer nearly 50 course each semester
She has taken weight training- self defense- yoga- tango, salsa and ballroom dancing classes</p>
<p>Yeah, Colgate had a swim test too, which apparently (after 186 years) they decided to drop this year for some reason.</p>
<p>S's large state u requires 2 semesters of PE to graduate. He took canoeing last year and loved it. The other required PE class is a "fitness for life" class where you choose from running, fitness walking, various water classes like aerobics or swimming or you can take a healthy living class to meet the requirement. I think all the state u's in our state require PE to graduate.</p>
<p>Columbia University's undergraduate P.E. requirement famously includes a 75-yard swim test (at one time and maybe still does).</p>