<p>I thought Wesleyan didn't have a core curriculum or required classes, but the website says "The University also maintains a set of general education expectations in the arts and humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. " So there are some distribution requirements? I'm wondering what exactly those consist of.</p>
<p>There is a loosely enforced "expectation" that a liberally educated person will have taken a minimum of two courses from each of four broadly defined divisions: NSM (Natual Science and Math), the social sciences (which includes psychology), the humanities (which may or may not include history, depending on who you talk to), and the arts. But, to be quite honest with you, the only people who seem to have a problem with them are the truly numerophobic, people who are just afraid anything to do with quantitative thinking. And there are fewer of those at Wesleyan every year. And, even for them, there are enough "policy-oriented" science courses offered every year that the Division I requrement isn't unbearable.</p>
<p>Thanks!.............</p>
<p>It's actually just NSM, SBS, and HA. Three areas.</p>
<p>And, you have are "expected" to take three, not two, courses from each - two each by the end of sophomore year and then one more, I believe.</p>
<p>Don't worry, there are classes in math/sciences that are suitable for people without a strong math/science background - and still really interesting/educational. There are also so many fascinating humanities/social-sciences classes that it really isn't a problem... and almost everyone satisfies these "expectations" without really trying to.</p>
<p>That said, a non-trivial number of people secure exemptions from their advisors for various reasons. A few majors require that GenEds be fulfilled, and you can't earn University Honors (on your thesis) or be inducted into Phi Beta Kappa without doing the GenEds.</p>
<p>Very helpful, thanks!</p>
<p>On an unrelated note, I visited Wesleyan this weekend, loved it, and am very probably applying ed 2.</p>