I live in Australia where if you study a particular degree, all (or the vast majority) of your subjects are directly related to that field.
I may be wrong but movies tend to give me the impression that at American universities/colleges, all students study a wide array of subjects, attend random lectures, and students room with people studying different things.
It also appears to be a lot about the lifestyle and not just get in, do your study, get your degree.
Are American studies specialised or more general?
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I’m in aus and honestly it depends on what you’re bachelor degree is about. If you do a focused bachelor that is designed to get you into a specific career after graduating such as nursing, medicine, physio, pharm, psych, engineering, actuary, geo science etc, then your degree will be mainly focused on giving u the skills to perform that job, along with a couple of general education classes (still remotely related to your degree ie a mandatory indigenous health and cultures unit in first year of your nursing degree), in your first year.
Conversely a bachelors such as an arts or commerce which isn’t designed to get you a specific job after graduating, will have a lot more general education classes aswell as a handful of elective classes, similar to what u see in movies for American college.
Well In America, most of there bachelor degrees don’t qualify you for a specific job after graduating such as a physio, pharm or bachelor of medicine you can get in Australi , instead they have to then complete a post graduate degree in this field to be qualified to work in this role. There bachelor degrees are designed to show an employer that you have the capability to learn and develop your knowledge and that you have some basic knowledge in many fields along with a small subset of specialised knowledge that may relate to the field you are applying in. As such there bachelor degrees in these fields are much more generalised then ours because they aren’t designed to qualify you for the job, more so to give u a taste of what’s to come in the post graduate degree. Therefore they have alot of generalised education classes and foundational learning like our arts and commerce bachelor degrees in Aus. Instead they save the specialised learning for the post graduate degrees such as a doctorate of pharmacy or doctorate of physio.
There are small exceptions to this in America such as engineering and nursing majors which typically are more like Australian bachelor degrees and are more focused as they do qualify the student to work in this field after graduating
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