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/^t/In fact universities in Poland offer their students a number of subjects which are not exactly necessary or even irrelevant in a given course of education. Moreover, almost all the classes are obligatory and there are very few optional lectures or seminars. Thus Polish students in all universities have to study topics imposed on them by departments with very small possibility to influence their stream of studies. For example: students of geography, apparently interested in geography, must add to their main body of classes, lectures in psychology or sociology, which are not especially connected with geography. Students of architecture must attend lectures in philosophy as if it really were connected with building engineering or urbanisation. Those are just examples but such cases are characteristic to the majority of universities and colleges in Poland. Besides, none of them offer students enough optional courses.