The International and Area Studies program is undergoing an internal review and potentially faces significant changes to its structure and requirements.
New ideas for the department include adding a larger research component, developing a methodology class and revamping the requirements.

Wash. U. needs to offer a Writing major given the substantial interest in the field by the student body.

Not everyone can afford to take language courses at a prestigious university or has the time to be enrolled in such courses. So some turn to online language programs to learn something new.

The ArtSci Council assembled on Wednesday evening two weeks ago to vote on the proposed changes to the curriculum in the College of Arts & Sciences, forwarded by the College’s New Curriculum Review Committee.

The Washington University administration is set to review the Arts & Sciences curriculum, which has remained unchanged nine years after its inception in 1999. The administration will focus on the cluster system, which all Arts & Sciences students are required to complete in order to graduate. Clusters are pre-designed groupings of classes in each of [...]