Akerra, GE program, and more study abroad

Akerra is a senior here at Pepperdine with lots of wisdom to offer you! She touches on the general education (GE) program here, which is a series of classes everyone is required to take. These include one science class and one math class, as well as some humanities, English, religion, and foreign language requirements. If your high school has AP courses available, take them. Getting a good score on the AP test can help you place out of some GE courses and lighten your load! That said, if you do not place out of any GE courses don't sweat. My GE religion courses were some of my favorite courses so far.

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She's gonna talk to you about her experience overtime. Where you from? I'm from Sacramento, California. I care about what year you and what's your major? I am a fourth year student. I am a liberal arts major in a concentration in Spanish. What does that mean? What is Liberal arts major? How schools don't have that. Most schools don't have that M actually, in most other states, it's called just your teaching credential program. In California we call it the liberal Arts program. Know what other people think is important in America are in the world, not just in America, which I think has been really, really fun, sometimes finishes really hard though, but I think the benefits have been really awesome. I think I think I'm a fan of the on ly fan of the eggy program I love as like someone who's in education. Um, now, I think it's really important that you have such a solid foundation. I'm a well rounded, solid foundation of your education. Yeah, I think that's kind of how I think about it, but I know that's a very unpopular opinion, but it's how I feel about it. After sitting about what have you enjoyed about your experience of pepper? Whoa. I think I've enjoyed connecting with teachers a lot. I would say the teachers here really dedicated and they like, are very much in love with their profession, in love with their jobs. I have had very few negative experiences with teachers, much fewer than I had in high school. Which I really stood out to me when I was a freshman here. Um, going abroad is kind of cool, huh? Where'd you go? Abroad. What? Cyrus Argentina. I loved loved going abroad. I love my home stay. I probably would've never, ever gone there had I not been in South America anyway. Yeah, I think it's much different than the other European programs. I think being in a home, in being able to leave school and have a life actually outside of school because you live outside of school. I think that made all the difference in the world very cool.