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You have to do breadth electives.

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The elective options have all to do with your Major, though.

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They don't want someone that only knows one thing, so they make you branch out and take other courses.

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The Major you're in, though, has probably 95% core courses which are nothing but your major. Take, for example, my Environmental Science Major. The Electives involve Science. My interest. And the Core Courses are mostly Environmental Science courses. There's maybe...five or six that aren't, and those are required Freshman Courses, for any degree.

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You have to do breadth electives.

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The elective options have all to do with your Major, though.

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They don't want someone that only knows one thing, so they make you branch out and take other courses.

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The Major you're in, though, has probably 95% core courses which are nothing but your major. Take, for example, my Environmental Science Major. The Electives involve Science. My interest. And the Core Courses are mostly Environmental Science courses. There's maybe...five or six that aren't, and those are required Freshman Courses, for any degree.

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I'm a chemical engineering major.  I have to take American History, Political Science, and American Cultures.  Now, I don't have too much leniency because of special circumstances.  For most people in my major, they have to complete nineteen units in breadth electives.

One course from Group one (Reading and composition), and the rest from Group 2 (Humanities and Social Sciences) which has things like languages (which I can only use 5 units for my major) anthropologies, architecture, environmental science, policy and management, business administration.  The list goes on.  This is those 'five or six' that you mentioned, and these are the one's I was asking about.

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This is my circumstance.  I'm an American that went to highschool in Canada, I didn't cover my highschool courses.  That forces me to complete the History, poli sci, and cultures requirement (which most kids would have had in highschool).  Instead of taking these courses, and then having to take the additional 19 breadth electives, I've had to reduce it down to a few that sastisfy both lists.  Which means I'm going for time efficiency rather than courses that I may find interesting... if that makes sense...

Now I'm core complete, and though I want to take classes I'm interested in, I'm trying to get classes for my major done with.

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I'm a chemical engineering major.  I have to take American History, Political Science, and American Cultures.  Now, I don't have too much leniency because of special circumstances.  For most people in my major, they have to complete nineteen units in breadth electives.

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While you may not think it, those courses are dire to one's Major, whether it be Chemical Engineering (You may get an Indian in your Employership, and you'd need to know their History to understand them, example of Culture coming in handy) or a simple Basic College Degree.

And, I've never heard of 'breadth electives' in my three years of Uni, and my Aunt's 20 something years of teaching at my Uni.

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One course from Group one (Reading and composition), and the rest from Group 2 (Humanities and Social Sciences) which has things like languages (which I can only use 5 units for my major) anthropologies, architecture, environmental science, policy and management, business administration.  The list goes on.  This is those 'five or six' that you mentioned, and these are the one's I was asking about.

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Groups? What the heck kind of college are you going to? We have classes. And those classes are, as one would assume, attuned to your degree plan. It makes sense that a Chemical Engineer would take mostly Engineering and Chemistry classes/an Environmental Science Major would take mostly Environmental and Biological Science courses.

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This is my circumstance.  I'm an American that went to highschool in Canada, I didn't cover my highschool courses.  That forces me to complete the History, poli sci, and cultures requirement (which most kids would have had in highschool).  Instead of taking these courses, and then having to take the additional 19 breadth electives, I've had to reduce it down to a few that sastisfy both lists.  Which means I'm going for time efficiency rather than courses that I may find interesting... if that makes sense...

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Time efficiency is how it should be. You stick to your major. YOu get out of the Uni system quicker. You shouldn't focus on what you like, unless that's your major.

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That being said, I know that a lot of those core class like US History and Humanities go in one ear and out the other, no matter how dedicated you are, and don't make that much of a difference outside of a learning environment. I see them more as classes to build critical thinking skills, and understanding how the background and culture of a nation came into being and its workings. Anyway, that kind of thinking helped me get through the classes that I disliked the most, and if you can keep that kind of attitude they won't be that much of a bother.

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I'm a chemical engineering major. I have to take American History, Political Science, and American Cultures. Now, I don't have too much leniency because of special circumstances. For most people in my major, they have to complete nineteen units in breadth electives.

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While you may not think it, those courses are dire to one's Major, whether it be Chemical Engineering (You may get an Indian in your Employership, and you'd need to know their History to understand them, example of Culture coming in handy) or a simple Basic College Degree.

And, I've never heard of 'breadth electives' in my three years of Uni, and my Aunt's 20 something years of teaching at my Uni.

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One course from Group one (Reading and composition), and the rest from Group 2 (Humanities and Social Sciences) which has things like languages (which I can only use 5 units for my major) anthropologies, architecture, environmental science, policy and management, business administration. The list goes on. This is those 'five or six' that you mentioned, and these are the one's I was asking about.

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Groups? What the heck kind of college are you going to? We have classes. And those classes are, as one would assume, attuned to your degree plan. It makes sense that a Chemical Engineer would take mostly Engineering and Chemistry classes/an Environmental Science Major would take mostly Environmental and Biological Science courses.

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This is my circumstance. I'm an American that went to highschool in Canada, I didn't cover my highschool courses. That forces me to complete the History, poli sci, and cultures requirement (which most kids would have had in highschool). Instead of taking these courses, and then having to take the additional 19 breadth electives, I've had to reduce it down to a few that sastisfy both lists. Which means I'm going for time efficiency rather than courses that I may find interesting... if that makes sense...

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Time efficiency is how it should be. You stick to your major. YOu get out of the Uni system quicker. You shouldn't focus on what you like, unless that's your major.

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No, I understand that they can come in handy... they aren't 'useless' courses, and like I said, it's good to be well rounded, but they aren't in my area.  You mentioned that you should like the courses in your major, but I don't like humanities, history, I hate political science... But I have to take some of these courses.  I'm actually glad I'm being forced to take them, because it's not good to be so one-sided... but that doesn't mean I'm going to enjoy them.

For my major, I have a huge list of classes that I can take that will satisfy the 19 units that I have to take as breadth electives.  Um... I suppose it's very similar to GE requirements, or general education requirements.  The "groups" are just the list of courses that I can use to satisfy this requirement for my major, and it has MANY classes to choose from.  Some of them would be more interesting than others, but because of my situation, if I want to do it as quickly as possible, I'm narrowed down to about 20-25 courses that I can choose from, from these groups.

And yes, that's how I am and what I'm planning on doing.  Lol, no second thoughts on that one, from the start I've decided I'm going to take the classes that will get me through as fast as possible, but I was just interested in knowing how many people prefer taking classes that might be more interesting as opposed to just going to school for the degree's sake.