QUOTE (kapkomet @ Feb 6, 2010 -> 03:52 PM)
Wow. That's pretty rare, I would think. Can I ask a stupid question (sure, I do it all the time!!! ) - did you know your major right away? Was that part of it?
I guess I'm fishing here because it seems to me that when I think back to my program, I was geared toward business and finance stuff even my soph. year. Of course, I had to take music, philosophy, etc. And even though I hated philosophy, and the biggest hippie ever taught it, I can clearly understand why that was in the curriculum, looking back. Back then, I thought, WTF am I having to do THIS CRAP for? But it's a way to create critical thought and diversity.
well, okay.. let me do the math
0/5 first semester
1/5 second semester *bulls*** j class
1/5 first semester
2/5 second semester
1/4 first
2/5
2/5
1/5
those are all the j classes. Now granted for journalism they might make us take more electives because there are only so many j classes you can take before it's redundant, and one "three hour" course, the newspaper one, has you actually workinga t the paper for 25-40 hrs. a week. So with that, I think they were too inflexible. I would have rather taken a s*** ton more humanities (for writing) and upper level sciences (for logic) than having to deal with sociology and psychology courses. I "minored" in polisci but i didn't even bother to actually put it on my degree b/c who the f*** cares.