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MIT is basically the same (average of one course per term), with an additional "distribution requirement" which means that a selection of your humanities course
by storborg 14y ago
MIT is basically the same (average of one course per term), with an additional "distribution requirement" which means that a selection of your humanities courses must be spread across a certain number of categories.
http://web.mit.edu/hassreq/ http://web.mit.edu/hassreq/
- tzs 14y agoCool. Caltech seems to have an implicit distribution requirement, through the requirement that that part of the units be split evenly between introductory and advanced courses--I think one would run out of introductory courses if one tried to do them all in one area. I suspect that MIT and Caltech students end up taking as much humanities and social sciences as do STEM majors at liberal arts colleges, and could plausibly claim to have obtained a liberal arts education.