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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It depends. I majored in physics at a top 5 research university. Aside from physics, math, and chemistry, I also took French, history, philosophy, and rhetoric. Some of this, like the rhetoric and foreign language, was required for the physics degree. At this uni, physics was in the “College of Letters and Science”, which had extensive non-major breadth requirements.
Later I transferred to a Engineering & Computer Science program, which was in the College of Engineering. I had already met their breadth requirements ( except for economics) but still took additional classes in philosophy and analysis (math).
This was an unusually broad program for a technically oriented degree – I went well beyond the required courses. But what’s the point of going to a University if you don’t take advantage of its universal nature?
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