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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ELI5 – there are courses like history, English composition, art, math and science along with electives that go with a degree to “round out” the students.
Freshman (first year college students) have a lot of non-major courses because they are getting a general education.
Junior and Senior college students (those close to or who will graduate) have courses almost exclusively on their major.
When I was a Senior, almost all of my courses were on my major except for a physiology class that was a degree requirement and only open to juniors and seniors (who had completed their general degree requirements) and a “20th century American drama” class that was a nice break from all the serious subjects (it was a class on famous plays of the 20th century).
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