OU's general education requirements are very unique, in my opinion. I won't lie, when I first started at OU, I used to think the gen. ed. classes were really stupid and rather pointless. However, as I've gone through each semester of my college experiences, I've grown a deeper appreciation for the classes. The high school that I graduated from allowed many opportunities for students to earn college credit through concurrent courses at a nearby college, as well as numerous AP courses. I was lucky enough to come into OU as a sophomore with 37 hours under my belt. Many of these courses, were of course, general education credits. As I began to decide what I wanted to do and what direction I wanted to head with my degree plan, I began slowly trying to craft a way to just knock out all of the general education courses at once. I quickly learned that was a stupid decision on my part, due to my heavy load of science courses. I had nothing to cushion the blow, so to speak. General education courses, in my opinion, help students in all areas, which I think is the original purpose in the creation of them. If general education courses were not required, I would not have been required to take any sort of history, English, or social science course because none of which are automatically built into the curriculum of my major.
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