question about 3-course clusters

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Rochester
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<p>Daughter was looking over course registration materials, and asked me to put out this question:</p>

<p>Does UR designate certain sets of 3 courses to be clusters, or is it up to the student to make their own groupings? In other words, do 3 related courses make up a cluster because the student says so, or does that designation come from elsewhere?</p>

<p>She asks because other schools she looked at grouped courses in their catalogs as clusters, while UR doesn't seem to.</p>

<p>For example, if she takes a course on African history, does she then find a course on African lit. and one on language, and declare that a cluster?</p>

<p>Any help would be appreciated.</p>

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<p>As far as I know, there are designed clusters, in which the student may choose 1 out of 2-3 different courses several times (i.e., 3 out of 6-9 courses) and call it their cluster. I think you can design your own clusters, too, but you'd have to talk to the university (maybe start with the advisor during orientation) about that.</p>

<p>To understand better what I mean, look here: <a href="http://www.rochester.edu/College/CCAS/clusters/cluster_directory7.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.rochester.edu/College/CCAS/clusters/cluster_directory7.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Thanks awb1989!</p>

<p>I'll pass that link to my daughter. It looks like there are lots of choices.</p>

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<p>My son picked three semi-related courses and then got approval to call it a cluster. The administration seems pretty flexible in allowing students to tailor the program in a way that works for them (within reason).</p>