Monday, May 7, 2012

Exploring the College Catalog

For a part of the general education requirements at my college, five courses must be completed of which each must be of different subject area. These subject areas are Engineering and Applied Sciences, Humanities, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and the Social Sciences. This block is referred to as Disciplinary Breadth. Another part of the requirements is the Education for Citizenship, which can be satisfied by completing two courses in different subject areas. For E.C, the subject areas are Ethical Reasoning, Global Community, American Cultures, and Gender Studies. Though the E.C. and D.B. are different, the E.C. can be satisfied if the courses taken for D.B. also are courses in subject areas related to E.C. For the writing requirement, two levels of writing and rhetoric requirements exist for undergraduates.  Every student must complete each level of writing by completing a course of writing and rhetoric with the designated level.
   For the next two years, I would be interested in taking AA100: Introduction to Aeronautics and Astronautics, ME 12N: Jet Engine, two courses that would help me become more familiar with the Aeronautics and Astronautics Major I would like to pursue and that meet the general education requirements.
For humanities, I would like to take Polisci 3P: Justice and Publpol 103B: Ethics and Public Policy, both courses that offer me a new perspective of political science, an area that I haven't really focused much on.
For math, I would probably take Math 51: Linear Algebra and Differential Calculus of Several Variables, which I heard can be very difficult, or at least time consuming, and Math 53: Ordinary Differential Equations with Linear Algebra, which has Math 51 as a prerequisite and is a requirement for an AA major.
For the Social Sciences requirements, I would take Econ 1A: Introductory Economics A and Econ 1B: Introductory Economics B, both popular courses that I would like to explore and that offer interesting perspectives on a powerful presence in civilization.
 For natural sciences, though I am not very interested in that subject, the courses EESS 38N: The Worst Journey in the World: The Science, Literature, and History of Polar Exploration and GES 1A: Introduction to Geology: The Physical Science of the Earth sound very interesting.


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