Why does the History department have only a few courses designated “Oral Intensive”?
You must realize, if you consider it clearly, that each discipline within the College of Arts and Sciences has different methods and types of information which it is trying to convey to the student (ex.: History and Physics). In that case, each discipline may lend itself to more of one kind of Intensive courses than the other. In addition, enrollment in may courses offered by the History department is very high. Large numbers make it difficult to meet the minimum requirements for a course to be designated “Oral Intensive.” Q: I notice that the requirements for various Writing Intensive courses, for instance, differ from class to class. Why is this? I would have expected that requirements would be standardized. A: The simple answer is that college is different from high school. The longer answer is that the whole idea behind the Intensive courses is to provide you, as a student, with an integrated experience, based on a variety of types of work within each intensive “category”. One clas
