<p>Which colleges have no specific core curriculum, but require you take a number of classes from major fields/areas? I believe this is called distribution requirements.</p>
<p>I know Brown does this, or something like it.</p>
<p>Rice does. To satisfy their distribution requirements, you take any four classes of your choice in each of these categories: arts/humanities, math/science, and social sciences.</p>
<p>connecticut college has distribution requirements- but offers a ton of options to fulfill that area (the departments listed have courses offered that fulfill that requirement)</p>
<ol>
<li>PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES: (bio, chem, physics, astronomy, geology, environ. studies, zoology, physics, psych)</li>
<li>MATH AND LOGIC (computer sci, math, philosophy)</li>
<li>SOCIAL SCIENCES (anthro, econ, education, psych, gov, spanish, human dev., linguistics, slavic studies, sociology, gender/women studies)</li>
<li>CRITICAL STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND THE ARTS (american studies, chinese, classics, dance, comparative cultures, east asian studies, english, film studies, french, german, spanish, italian, japanese, music, theater, gender/womens studies)</li>
<li>CREATIVE ARTS: (art, dance, english, film, music, theater)</li>
<li>PHILOSOPHICAL AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES: (classics, philsophy, religion)</li>
<li>HISTORICAL STUDIES (american studies, art history, classics, east asian studies, hispanic studies, history, music)</li>
</ol>
<p>plus: 1 language (which can be part of one of the above fulfillments)
and 2 courses designated as writing intensive or writing enhanced.</p>
<p>see, its fun! talk about a well rounded liberal arts education!</p>
<p>7 categories is just too complicated. 3 is a lot better. Go Rice!</p>
<p>But still, that's 12 classes if it's 4 categories per category. </p>
<p>Anyways I really don't want want well-rounded, I just want to avoid science and minimize the damage to my college GPA. I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE science.</p>
<p>4 of the 12 are usually filled by your major though. So it's really 8 (less if the classes are 4 hours instead of 3). AP credit fills a lot of it, too.</p>
<p>And don't hate science ;)</p>
<p>Where would we be without it??</p>
<p>I actually think Rice's requirements are lenient compared to some other colleges.</p>
<p>Rice and Duke both have what you're describing. I know, becuz I had to choose between Rice and Duke, and their many similarites made it agonizing.</p>
<p>Dartmouth does this. I actually loved it, I took some great classes I might otherwise not have taken and the choices were incredibly diverse. And there was always an "out", for example there was a class "Physics for poets" for people who wanted to fill a science requirement but didn't actually want to take a science class.</p>
<p>Haha a similar class is the "Rocks for Jocks" (an earth science class)</p>
<p>Brown does not have distribution requirements, or any requirements whatsoever as for the type of classes you take. The only requirements come when you select a major or minor. This is partly where Brown's notoriety stems from.</p>
<p>worth2try, most colleges have distribution requirements. You'd be better off identifying those that have a core (like Chicago and Columbia) those that have NO requirements (like Brown and Amherst) then assuming that the rest have some kind of choose-three-from-each-category system.</p>
<p>Oh, thanks momrath. </p>
<p>I was under the impression that most colleges fit into one of the two categories - no core and core.</p>