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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Gonna chime in here because I haven’t seen these things elaborated: your general education classes and electives are either requirements of the particular degree of study or the department the degree belongs to, moreso than a universal set of guidelines for very degree. Furthermore, a student will frequently have options to choose from within a category with a certain credit requirement. For example, I studied psychology and sound. I needed to satisfy a math requirement and had the option to take several math classes but chose to take a class on the physics of sound because it interested me. Some schools let you create a personal degree proposal wherein you write a course plan and essay that is then approved by a departmental board.
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