Answered by clareapparent
The College of General Studies is actually a really rigorous program, according to my friends who did it. To be frank, yes, you have less choice about the classes you take for the first two years - your classes are pre-determined and you take them with all the same people (in teams). But I've actually found that a lot of CGS kids, who, like I said, have some much harder classes than the ones in CAS, come out of it, transfer to CAS/other colleges and really kick ass. Like get As when other kids don't. And some of them have AWESOME jobs post-graduation (better than mine, LOL). All my friends from CGS were really happy there, actually. As far as I know, your freshman year you really won't have room to do extra courses outside of CGS, ie: language courses. BUT there is a foreign language requirement built into CGS core, so you'll be able to take at least one. But starting sophomore year, you get one free elective choice, so you could add on a second language there if you wanted. Then you'd have all junior and senior year to take as many language courses as you wanted in your major, so you could definitely fit in the program you want. Most freshman and sophomores actually get to do very little from their chosen major b/c there are so many liberal arts requirements, so you'll be on pretty much the same footing as everyone else. I didn't take a class in my major until I was a sophomore, either.