[SirLinksalot]

Most of my knowledge has come from personal, post-graduate reading.

The implied question is this -- why were you not required to know them as a college Senior ?

[twigs]

First of all, there were basically no core requirements except two years of a foreign language, a writing course and 6 hours of a science or math. Then I transferred to the School of Architecture. I took no history at all. I entered college in 1972 and I attended UVA.