<p>Re: #36</p>
<p>While an open curriculum reduces the number of students taking unwanted breadth requirements, there could be students in some courses who are not all that interested in them, but have to take them for their majors (they are more interested in some other subareas of the major), or “need” to take them for some other reason (e.g. pre-med).</p>
<p>Note that engineering majors at Brown do have to take out-of-major humanities and social studies courses, as this is required for ABET accreditation. This makes these majors exceptions to the open curriculum.</p>