<p>I was looking through the Vanderbilt website and I can't find any sort of required courses or general education courses. Can someone please enlighten me on their location, or if they even exist?</p>
<p>AXLE </p>
<p>[Vanderbilt</a> University: College of Arts and Science](<a href=“http://www.vanderbilt.edu/cas/registrar/academicpolicies/axle/index.php]Vanderbilt”>http://www.vanderbilt.edu/cas/registrar/academicpolicies/axle/index.php)</p>
<p>For students in Arts and Science, not Engineering (or Peabody or Blair, as far as I know).</p>
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<p>Wow, I just lot respect for Vandy for the worst looking required courses ever. Seriously, I want to attend college to learn what I want to learn…and then I’d be stuck learning about cultures?? Give me a break.</p>
<p>Graduate school wants a well-rounded person, and Vanderbilt caters to that. Are you too good for other people’s cultures or something?.. because that’s what your post seemed like</p>
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<p>Greens, </p>
<p>You won’t be missed! See ya.</p>
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<p>How about required class for engineering? Thank you!</p>
<p>We don’t have to do AXLE for Peabody or Blair either (I started in Blair, in the middle of an IUT to Peabody). Greens – screw off. If you think for 30 seconds that you’re going to go to college without taking gen eds, you’re nuts. For the first time on these boards, I agree with Taco.</p>
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<p>Feliz, I believe it varies depending on the specific major, although there are a couple of engineering courses that are required for all VUSE students, I think.</p>
<p>If you have a really strong AP record, you might be able to meet some of the humanities and social science requirements that way. Again, some of it is major-specific.</p>
<p>Peruse the VUSE web site. If you can find the name of the undergraduate program directors for specific departments, you might want to e-mail them and ask for more information.</p>
<p>Or maybe some of the engineering students here will help out. I’m just a parent–which means my info. is second-hand.</p>
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<p>Feliz, all engineers have to take Intro to Engineering. A calculus sequence is also required (usually several semesters of calculus, differential equations, etc). Chemistry and physics are also required for most if not all engineering majors.</p>
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<p>Thank you!</p>
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<p>Greens,
… have fun wherever you end up, and let us know about that dream curriculum. </p>
<p>About AXLE and Engineering reqs.
AXLE is tailored to non science majors imo. It is very easy to finish AXLE if you are not majoring in the any of the sciences (easy if you pick MHS major as well). That being said, it covers a very large range of classes. Assuming you aren’t a science snob (like me) you should be happy with all your AXLE classes (man I hate humanities classes…).</p>
<p>VUSE I believe only requires 18 hours of “liberal arts” credits. I think 6 of those can be fulfilled with AP, but don’t quote me.</p>
<p>Engineering does require 18 hours of a liberal arts core, however there is no cap on AP credit. Except for needing one “advanced” class in the liberal arts (easily taken care of), I knocked out my entire core with AP classes. I also used AP classes for placement in math, and they helped me out so much being ahead that I’m able to switch my major (within engineering) going into next year and not be behind. I’m also double majoring in math with the college of arts and science and minoring in blair, but because I’m enrolled in the school of engineering I don’t have to do axle for my math major.</p>
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<p>If you google “Vanderbilt course catalog” and search for your respective school/major within that, there will be a “suggested curriculum” for each that tells you which classes you’ll be taking when, and above that, it usually explains the requirements of your liberal arts core (if not in A&S).</p>
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<p>Not at all. But I’m passionate about business, and cultures…eh not so much. But hey, if they can make it interesting then I’m all for it. It just seems skeptical in my eyes because I feel like it would be like yet another history course where some quack lectures on and on and on while people are drooling on their desk.
So, I guess that brings me to ask: Who has had experience with these courses and how “fun” are they? Does the professor attempt to make it exciting, and how is it taught?</p>
<p>Greens, </p>
<p>There’s always Brown.</p>
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<p>DD is in VUSE and was never forced to take a history or english class unless she wanted to. The options for the liberal arts core were so wide that she easily found classes of interest that satisfied the requirements. I can’t speak to any other majors.</p>
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<p>Greens, just to avert the belligerence. My experience with AXLE has been mesmerizing to say the least, but you can either take AXLE in two ways, as Isocrates would have it in its quintessence: </p>
<p>1) Liberal Arts Open The Mind
2) Liberal Farts Open The Mind</p>
<p>Either way, what I am trying to say is you will suffer no loss in giving the Vanderbilt liberal arts requirement a shot.</p>
<p>Since all freshman are required to take the writing seminar class is that a 3-credit course as well and does it go into our schedule like a normal class or how does it work? I’ve been looking at the course catalog and I was planning on take Lit. and Analytical Thinking as my writing class but if the writing seminar counts then I won’t have to.</p>
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<p>The freshman writing seminars fulfill both a writing requirement as well as an AXLE requirement, so even though you get 3 credit hours it acts like a “twofer” in that respect. The topics in the writing seminars cover all AXLE areas-Math and Natural Sciences,Perspectives,Humanities,Social Sciences,etc. For example, there was a seminar called the Mathematics of Gaming which fulfilled one of the Math/Natural Science requirements and at the same time fulfilled a writing requirement. Hope this answers your question.</p>
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<p>My S is in A&S and plans to major in economics. After taking his French exam tomorrow, he will have finished his freshman year. One of his academic highlights was his FYWS, Presidential Politics: College Studies, Social Movements, and Civic Activism, taught by Professor Dalhouse, who is head of East. He loved the class, which shows how wonderful Dalhouse is, for S’s essay on the common app had to do with how much he hates to write! Please read about Dalhouse on ratemyprofessors.com as you decide on your top seven FYWS choices. This fulfilled S’s AXLE credit for 115F, or FYWS, as well as his US AXLE credit. A&S students need only one US AXLE credit. (Many people like to fulfill this US credit with a country music course that is supposed to be fun.)</p>
<p>After reading “The Writing Requirement” section in ON THE ROAD With AXLE, I was confused, so I called Dean Bergquist. She explained that since my S had finished his First Year Writing Seminar and had scored at least a 27 on the English section of the ACT, he just needed to complete a 100W course by the end of sophomore year and another 100W or a 200W class by graduation. He has signed up for English 118W for fall. He was careful not to sign up for English 102W and 105W because he wants to use his AP credits for AP Eng Lit and Composition–not forfeit them. He also avoided English 120W because he wanted to use his AP credit for AP English Language and Composition. These AP credits will NOT count toward the two W courses. S is just accumulating hours toward graduation with these AP credits. </p>
<p>I hope this helps.</p>
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