The Core Curriculum
Classes I had to Take for Hub Credits
History
Extracurriculars
Miscellaneous
100
My least favorite Core class made me realize that I hate this humanities discipline
What is philosophy?
100
I took two science classes that tested us on this difficult discipline, which I have never studied
What is physics?
100
The first history course I ever took at BU made me obsessed with this country
What is Poland?
100
My eboard position in Shakespeare Society
What is secretary?
100
The name of the BU mascot
What is Rhett?
200
The first Core text I read is also the oldest piece of writing known to us
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
200
I learned in my environmental science class that this machine is the most effective form of transport that humanity has ever made
What is the bicycle?
200
I signed up for a course called the Theater of History, which actually ended up being about the Theater of History of this country
What is Japan?
200
I finally got involved with the theater group Wandering Minds this last semester, doing tech for this familiar show
What is The Importance of Being Earnest?
200
The subject I'm going to grad school for and the degree I will be pursuing
What is a Master's degree in museum studies?
300
The longest Core text, Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, is the first modern example of this writing form
What is the novel?
300
My professor in this subject would often serenade us at the end of class by singing songs about what we learned that day, like the process of retrograde
What is astronomy?
300
The majority of Confederate statues and monuments were put up in three separate eras; list any or all
What are Reconstruction, Jim Crow (early 20th Century), and the Civil Rights Era?
300
The number of Shakespeare plays I performed in
What is 8?
300
This was the city where I was supposed to study abroad
What is Padua, Italy?
400
In my junior year, I took a class that focused on one Core text that discussed these animals
What are birds?
400
The Beta Israel are a Jewish community from this African country
What is Ethiopia?
400
The Holodomor was a genocide committed by this predecessor to a current antagonizing nation
What is the Soviet Union?
400
The choir I was in
What is OBOB?
400
The number of pages in my thesis
What is 51?
500
In the Core natural science class, I learned that there is a diagram depicting the number of nerves in a body part and that receptors location in the brain in relation to the receptors of other body parts. The proximity of one of these receptors to the one for genetalia explains this fetish
What are foot fetishes?
500
This piece of legislation enforces the repatriation of Indigenous remains and artifacts to their respective Nations
What is NAGPRA?
500
This political housewife active in the 1960s and '70s is my new most despised individual
Who is Phyllis Schlafly?
500
The Word and Way Society got into a heated debate about whether the Divine Comedy was fanfic of this epic author; we trumped the classics major and decided in the affirmative
Who is Virgil?
500
"Please" in Italian
What is per favore?