<p>Got back from tour.
INteresting. They have required courses which sounds great..... but then
for PE...you can take speed reading
for science...you can take dinasours</p>
<p>too liberal for me</p>
<p>Not really required “courses” but liberal arts distributives (or general ed) courses outside your field or major to demonstrate breadth. (Dartmouth does not have a Core ala Chicago or Columbia.)</p>
<p>The dino course is complex (and tough). It deals with biological development of dinos to birds, or something like that. Great prof, but not a gpa booster.</p>
<p>btw: Every college that has a PE requirement also allows non-physical types of activities to fulfill the requirement. They HAVE to for ADA purposes, or just allow exemptions.</p>
<p>What is the point of this thread, seriously? </p>
<p>I personally love the freedom Dartmouth gives to pick from a huge selection of courses in order to fulfill distribs. I’m not very artistic but there are so many things to pick for an Art distrib that it doesn’t worry me at all. Same goes for distribs like international or comparative study (INT) and cultural identity (CI); I love Biology and Math and not a lot of social science things but I was able to find courses that genuinely interested me that would fulfill the distribs. I never get the feeling that I just have to take a course to get it out of the way to fulfill a requirement. It’s more of having a lot of opportunities to broaden my interests in a lot of different directions. There’s nothing wrong with making allowances for people who are weak/inexperienced in certain areas and not others. </p>
<p>Also, one of my best friends is anemic and can’t do almost any form of physical activity for more than five minutes or she throws up and/or faints. So speed reading would be a great option for her. Unfortunately, she’s not going to Dartmouth.</p>
<p>OP,</p>
<p>Distribution requirements can be filled in a variety of ways. A group of professors have put together a more classical core curriculum to fulfill distribution requirements. </p>
<p>[Introduction</a> — Daniel Webster Project in Ancient and Modern Studies](<a href=“http://www.dartmouth.edu/~websterprogram/index.php/introduction/]Introduction”>http://www.dartmouth.edu/~websterprogram/index.php/introduction/)</p>
<p>Dartmouth doesn’t have required courses (with the exception of Freshman Writing), but it does have distribution requirements, which many other colleges have too (i.e. Princeton is similar to Dartmouth’s reqs, MIT requires 9 humanities classes, etc). These can be fullfilled by taking any course that is related to that distribution requirement. Like for science you can take any 2 classes from Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, Environmental Studies, etc. For PE you can take swimming, CPR, skiing… The examples that the tour guides give are usually some of the quirkier, or more unique, classes just to demonstrate the wide variety of classes that Dartmouth offers. </p>
<p>I don’t see how this can be too liberal for anybody. You can definitely be conservative and stay within the boundaries of regular Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and regular physical education classes like basketball, dancing, etc.</p>