<p>Can anyone tell me their experiences with the Text and Tradition program or the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities?</p>
<p>My S (rising soph) is pursuing that track. He's in the Text and Tradition program planning on the IPH major and a minor in math. Very, very happy with it. Unfortunately, that's the extent of my knowledge except for what's on the website. I am going PM you so you can email S for first-hand conversation.</p>
<p>I'm a rising sophomore in T&T. I loved the program freshman year! It's not easy, in fact, it's a lot of work. The two classes you take 1st semester are early western history and classic literature. My experience wih EWhistory was so so, it was really easy (I had Clancy) but kind of boring. Classic Lit, on the other hand, was amazing. Get professor Purchase if you can, because he's wonderful. It was a difficult class, the papers were very in depth and there were lots of quizzes so you definitely have to do the readng on time. That being said, it was one of my favorite classes. Second semester, I took scriptures in the T&T program, which was pretty good. Oh, and T&T has it's own section of writing 1, so if you do T&T you don't have to do some of the stupid busywork assignments from regular writing 1. there's also events and stuff that the IPH department puts on for T&T people. all in all, it's a great program!!!! let me know if you have any specific questions.</p>
<p>My son just graduated as an IPH major and loved it as well - 1 of only five seniors this year. Students really get to know the professors well. It was the Text and Tradition classes that turned him on to the IPH major.</p>
<p>are the special programs (i.e. Mind, Brain, Behavior and Memory in Mind and Culture) known to be any harder or easier than going through the normal route with know artsci programs?</p>
<p>depends on if you function better in small, discussion-based classes or large lectures based more on memorization than extrapolation.</p>
<p>and regarding Text and Tradition: the professors who teach it are phenomenal, and the opportunity to interact with them in classes of usually about a dozen students is pretty awesome as a freshman.
i didn't do Text and Tradition and instead opted for a freshman FOCUS, but a few of my friends did T&T and loved it.</p>
<p>bump! i really wan’t to know more about this</p>
<p>When you get your webstac info, check out evals.wustl.edu and see what people think. I have no clue when you guys get your webstac info, or if it comes too late, but I always find it useful to see what the people that took the class thought (you can only see numerical answers to vague questions, but it gives you an idea of how well the class was enjoyed).</p>
<p>Thanks marcdvl, someone else told me to do that and I did have access to it 
I decided to try out Text and Tradition. Hopefully I’ll like it too :)</p>