majors...

<p>probably A.B. for me</p>

<p>probably COE</p>

<p>whatever will allow me to go into environmental policy on the internation level.... i'm thinkin' either environmental studies/science or international relations (or both) plus i'll definitely be studying spanish and i want to pick up german.....</p>

<p>this might be a dumb question... but can you take a language without majoring in it? Because I want to get in touch with my italian roots and to do so I want to take the language... because my school is really small and kind of "ghetto" the only language offered was spanish... so i took that for 3 years...</p>

<p>Poison Ivy....yes, indeed you can take a language without majoring in it at Brown! I have a daughter who is a soph at Brown. She LOVES French but has no plans to major or minor in it but wanted to continue with it in college. She has taken French the past three semesters at Brown (has taken it since third grade as well). She is now trying to get a summer job in France, in fact. She is going to stop taking French now (so much other stuff she wants to take) though when she hopefully goes abroad next fall, she'll be taking Italian in that program (it's in Florence) and is talking of wanting to take some Spanish senior year as she has never taken it. She is declaring her major in Architectural Studies. The beauty of Brown is that you can take whatever you WANT.....so go for it! If you like foreign languages, take them and if not, you don't have to! This is unrelated to majors (concentrations, actually, at Brown).</p>

<p>Susan</p>

<p>Soozie: is your D going to the Florence program by Syracuse? My brother did that last year (a math and architectural studies double concentrator) and loved it. Hope she has a good time.</p>

<p>Rabo, her application to the Syracuse architecture program in Florence is sitting here waiting to go out (needs her Brown transcript to arrive any day...was waiting for all her grades to come in, which they did, because the application requires a GPA and Brown does not have GPAs, so a transcript is needed). My daughter spoke or emailed with two students from Brown who have already done this program and I don't know if your brother was one or not. I am sure she would like to talk to your brother if he was not one of the kids she already contacted or heard about. Maybe you can email me his name so I can have her contact him? I'm going to see her tomorrow in fact. She is at a three week training camp in NH with the Brown ski team and I'm traveling to their first race tomorrow. Let me know. </p>

<p>On a totally unrelated note, I read in some old post of yours that your dad is the author of a book to do with musical theater and Broadway. I am interested in what book that is because I have a freshman daughter in a BFA program for musical theater at NYU/Tisch. My Brown D is also experienced and interested in musical theater and is taking a course this coming semester at Brown in the history of American Musical Theater. Thanks.</p>

<p>Susan</p>

<p>Comparative Literature or English, and Spanish!</p>

<p>Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences. Anyone?
And yes, you can take whatever subject you want to learn. That's precisely what everyone loves at Brown, me included. It's called "open curriculum", or so I heard from a Brown undergrad. Does anyone know any other college with this policy? Amherst seems to have a similar one.</p>

<p>Amherst, Brown, and Grinnell are the only colleges with completely open curricula. A bunch of other schools have ones that have a few requirements, but not as many as normal distributives (U of Rochester for one.)</p>

<p>engineering, civil prob</p>

<p>very subject to change however...</p>

<p>Economics and either English or Political Science</p>

<p>Smith has open curriculum.</p>

<p>cognitive neuroscience and maybe an a.b. in philosophy too</p>

<p>Smith is mostly open, but has the requirement that at least half of your courses are outside your major.</p>