I am an international student from Romania , where the educational system is very different , and I am asked on the common app to list my courses related to my desired major (geological sciences) . The problem is that we call our courses very vaguely like physics , math and gegraphy instead of calculus , environmental sciences , thermodynamics etc … .
What should I type ? At one point I thought about writing them like :
PHYSICS
- newtonian mechanics
- geometrical optics
- Thermodynamics
… etc
MATHEMATICS - trigonometry
- linear algebra
… etc
You get the idea .
Is this a good thing to do , or should I let them as they are named in my country ?