I'm not sure if the German Abitur doesn't already cover the freshman year of USAmerican college ... in that case, there would have been plenty of mandatory humanities courses instead of none. (Then again, pure mathematics could be considered humanities for a physics student :-P )
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Yes. The Abitur + 3 exchange students I worked with over the last 20 years all performed as well as or better than 4 + something second or third year American grad students, to be honest.
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I went to an engineering school, and the generic requirement was something like five classes (discounting English/writing requirements): -2 courses in "ideas and cultural traditions" -2 courses in "society and human behavior" -1 course in "critical issues in a global context"
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I AP'ed out of most of this. There was also a silly 1-credit-hour "creativity and aesthetic experience" requirement. https://www.tranguide.registrar.vt.edu/2018/coreareas.html …
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Harvey Mudd Grad here. 1/3 of our coursework was in the humanities. (1/3rd core tech practice, 1/3 major)
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Huh. There was one or two per semester, so a dozen? However, there was no such concept as a "not required" course, so things might not be directly comparable to western education.
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I think that’s mostly true everywhere because there’s so much required. I think I had allowance for 3-4 electives.
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As a retired STEM academic advisor, I can tell you that every student (BA or BS)at the Institute had six humanities and one ss, two nat sci, and two math bare minimum. SS used to be three and two PE got cut along with the two as just last year. The Iron Rule of 120 is NJ law
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