Sophomore Matt Ingoglia, a Hatchet columnist, applauds the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences for revamping its General Curriculum Requirements.

Next to class registration and housing hassles, there are few aspects of the GW experience I believe garner more negative sentiments than the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences’ General Curriculum Requirements. With many of the school’s students pursuing multiple majors and minors with their own strenuous workloads, the additional need to take 42 credits worth of classes only adds to academic stress.

This is not to say that GCRs are worthless; a balanced education is the point of a liberal arts school. But the sheer number of GCRs was clearly problematic and merited a review.

Last year, professors in CCAS voted to slash the school’s monstrous requirements, downsizing the required courseload from 42 to 24 credits. CCAS finally recognized that a year and a half’s worth of GCRs complicate students’ efforts to pursue the classes they find most relevant to their fields of interest.