Emily's Musings

Liz is going to Boston!

Yay! Mom just wrote and reported that Liz has picked Boston University! She apparently loved her visit there, and Mom writes that the College of General Studies has a very neat interdisciplinary core curriculum for the first two years. According to the course descriptions:

The College's core curriculum assumes that the first two years of study are an optimum time for exploring a significant body of historical and scientific knowledge, for examining a wide range of cultural patterns and values, and for developing critical thinking and effective communication. Thus, the core curriculum provides the student with a challenging program of interdisciplinary study focused on developing modes of intellectual thought.

And the first year, she'll probably be taking:

• Traditions in the Humanities
• Social Science I: Introduction to the Social Sciences
• Physical Science I: Ancient Cosmology to the Newtonian Revolution
• Rhetoric I: English Composition, Written and Oral Argument
• Humanities II: Breaks with Tradition
• Social Science II: Modernization of the Western World
• Physical Science II: Matter and the New Cosmology
• Rhetoric II: Research Methodology and Writing
• Elective

VERY cool! Congrats to Liz!!! Posted by Emily at April 4, 2004 09:31 PM