Pre-Professional Coursework Question

[horseraddish]

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I am competing my undergraduate degree at a liberal arts school that doesn't really offer courses in English Composition (except mainly in creative writing, and I think I have taken a poetry course that should count) or Public Speaking, which are often listed as prereqs for particular pharmacy programs? I am sure others have run into similar problems, did you take these classes elsewhere after completing your undergraduate degree and before applying?

Thanks for any advice

 

[Passion4Sci]

Normally I don't advise taking CC classes when you're at a university but that's mostly applicable to science courses that you don't want to look like you're "dodging." No one should think it suspicious that you're taking an English course somewhere else.

 

[pharm B]

Your school really offers nothing in the way of first year English courses?

I've never encountered this before.

 

[holymolys]

your school would have something like ENGL 102. i know in my school there were over 20 sections of this stuff... must be a special school to not have writing classes

 

[horseraddish]

Thanks for the responses

Students at my school are required to take a first year writing seminar that can be part of a variety of different academic departments. The class I took was an Intro Poetry class, but was a class in the Philosophy dept. All the English classes focus of different types of literature, naturally there is a lot of writing involved, but no courses specifically for english composition (other than creative).