I stood in the classroom dumbfounded, not knowing what to say, as the entire class burst into haughty laughter around me. This is how Brown University welcomed me. At Dartmouth, professors welcome visiting students into their classroom, or at least, they did so when I was a prospective. Conversely, Brown publicly humiliates prospective students. Brown University has no core curriculum, and it has no requirements either.
Students can take an unlimited amount of classes pass-fail.
After this comment I almost walked out, although no one in the class seemed the least bit phased. Literary Analysis is far too strong a word for what went on in Race, Writing, and Manhood. Towards the end of the class I learned Emerson only appeared in three or four scenes in the novel. When I got the syllabus I learned that this was the only class devoted to this novel. So the only thing that this class discussed about this book was whether one very minor character was gay.