<p>How many G.E.'s are there?</p>
<p>It’s just G now. I sold the E. To Samsung. They’re Samesung now.</p>
<p>There is 1, and you can get out of it if you pass the writing ‘exam’ they give to you over the summer. For me and many others, there are no G.Es.
However, you do have to take 4 classes in every subject area in order to graduate. D1 is the humanities, D2 is the social sciences, and D3 is natural sciences.</p>
<p>There are no true gen. ed courses. Just the distribution reqs (12 credit hours or ~4 classes in the two distributions outside of your major, as outlined above) and the writing requirement. Starting this fall (this is new!), all incoming students will need to take a writing seminar to graduate. They will be small classes offered in all sorts of different disciplines. I haven’t heard anything final, but there was talk about some of them counting for distribution credit too. The writing exam will no longer be offered over the summer.</p>
<p>I read something about the writing course(s) freshman year and it seems like beginning next year that they cannot be tested out of? I remember that there were some big (and good) changes coming, just don’t remember specifics.</p>
<p>I was under the impression that, despite all the hype about them getting rid of the writing exam, they’re still going to be using it in the final plan for the new writing requirement. It won’t let you test out of anything besides remedial courses, though. Everyone will still need to take the writing seminar.</p>
<p>Note that I may be entirely wrong, though. That’s just the last I remember reading in the Thresher.</p>