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Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. I have a tendency, I must admit, to overlook humanities. How does it work in the US? In my country, it works like this: you ch
by Eugeleo 9y ago
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. I have a tendency, I must admit, to overlook humanities.
How does it work in the US?
In my country, it works like this: you choose a "route" (for lack of better word). Based on the route, there are some compulsory classes you must take, some optionally-compulsory classes (around 5 in a group, you have to take at least 2 of them) and then you can take whatever classes you like, from whatever other route you please (you don't have to take the whole second route, just nitpick the interesting classes).
E.g. We have three routes in bachelor CS - general CS, software and data engineering, programming and software systems. All of these are divided into 2-4 branches, which differ in couple of the compulsory classes, but are otherwise very similar. All those three routes also have some classes (most of them, actually) in common, such as Linear algebra, Calculus, Probability, Analytics, Intro to Programming etc.
I can pile up as many other classes on top of this as I please... Even take all the genetics, molecular biology and others from bioinformatics (if time and mind capacity permit).
- xenophonf 9y agoIt varies by college but what you've described is basically how it works in the U.S. Take my alma mater for example: http://rose-hulman.edu/academics/academic-departments/computer-science-software-engineering/majors-and-minors.html#CS http://rose-hulman.edu/academics/academic-departments/comput... A while ago they split the CS degree program into three tracks---computer science skews towards research topics, software engineering is more process oriented, and international computer science combines the two with study abroad---but the three programs overlap so much that you could have a CS graduate go into industry with zero problems, and you could have an SE graduate go into academia just as easily.