First year students, prospective students- This one is for you!
So, as you probably know, Redeemer has a little thing known as “core courses.” Queue the dramatic music, gnashing of teeth, and various other forms of protest. Ah, core courses. How we love them, how we dread them.
As an arts student, my greatest fear was the darkly looming Science courses on the horizon. Visions of high school labs and incorrect labelling of the periodic table filled my mind... Wait, did I read that right? I have to take TWO Science courses? TWO?! All I wanted to do was take my English and Theatre courses.
However, upon actually getting into my classes, I was pleasantly surprised. This core thing wasn’t half bad! All my courses were far more interesting than I had thought they would be, and I found myself applying things I had learned in one course to another. The greatest part? One of my Science cores turned out to be awesome. (I say one because I foolishly put off taking Biology, and will now be taking it in my third year. Bad idea. Take Biology as soon as you can! Don’t follow my bad example!) Computer Science-101, who would have guessed you would become one of my favourite courses? A hilarious Prof, useful knowledge, fun assignments... this Science thing ain’t so dreadful after all.
Now of course, this dread of core courses goes both ways. I know there are tons of students who loathe the idea of having to sit through a Music class, dance in a Theatre class, and think poems are the most terrible thing to ever have been created. Never fear, fellow students. While dancing in front of your peers may seem awful and completely inapplicable to your future, I promise you won’t regret it. (A fun story- I once fell over in the middle of a Theatre dance circle. Apparently everyone else thought it was some fancy new dance move I had developed. Excellent.)
Yes, core seems like a bummer. But if you go into it with an open mind, you never know what you’ll find. (Nice rhyming skills, eh? You’ll learn that in your English classes!) It makes sense to only want to take courses in your field, but in the end the broad spectrum of learning will only benefit you.
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