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I'm going to jump on the "Don't take 20 credits your first semester" bandwagon too. Even with the ability to drop classes, you really don't want to get in over your head. I'm shocked they even let you sign up for so many, at my university 18 is the limit, any higher requires the signature of the dean of your school.
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I think that you all are importing too much uniformity on to the term "units." Four units in one class is different from four units in another class which is different from four units at another school.
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It's this same mentality that worships standardized tests without questioning what we are testing.
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First of all, credits are roughly standardized; while they are only a heuristic, they are a heuristic.
Second, she posted her list of courses. Significant numbers of practice-requiring music courses, a beyond-beginner music theory course, and a language course are all very intensive courses, generally speaking. Obviously her experience could be different, but odds are it won't be.
There is significant incentive for her to err on the side of caution. Many people have bad experiences with college because they overloaded themselves. Taking what is considered a normal courseload, particularly when one has not had the chance to ascertain one's own capabilities at the particular college, is rarely going to be a choice with negative effects.
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Here's the deal with my course load: I don't have a choice. Those classes(the music ones, anyway) are required for all first semester music majors. It's not really that much TIME per week. only about five hours of classes a day, plus practice and study. so, the music calsses I can't drop without adding a significant chunk of time onto my college time- and I'd really like to graduate in four years. I could drop math or french, but I actually ENJOY both of those, and I'm considering moving to Quebec someday anyway, simply because I'm sick of our country's policies.
I'm a smart person, generally speaking. I'm in the honors program and all. I think I'll be able to handle it. And if I can't... well, I'll be taking those later. But for now... I'll deal.
I move in September 17. I'm looking forward to it.
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quote:Here's the deal with my course load: I don't have a choice.
quote:I could drop math or french, but I actually ENJOY both of those,
You do have a choice.
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The French is the one that probably is going to give you the most course work, and if dropped would leave you at 15 credits.
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CGS2064 -- Computer Literacy II HIS3464 -- History of Science WOH1023 -- Modern World to 1815 HIS4930 -- War/Society During The French Revolution REL3170 -- Religious Ethics.
I move up to Tallahasse in a week . I'm pretty excited. FSU, here I come!
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I love my ed class, the child development not so much. Psych and Micro Bio are good, the bio lab is fun.
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I'm bummed because I found out one of the classes I'm taking won't count toward my major. Annoying, because it's wasted credit - I don't even need it as an elective. I'd drop it, but I still have to pay for it and no sense in not trying to get my money's worth out of it. Besides, I have an A in it so far and it will at least help bring up my GPA.
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My "War and Society During the French Revolution" class is freaking awesome! The dude is the best professor I've ever had. History of Science, on the other hand, is insufferably boring. And World Civilization to 1815 is stuff I've known since middle school. But overall, its going great .
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Intro to Islamic Civ Holy War, Crusade, and Jihad Gender, Sexuality, and the Body in Late Antiquity Religion and American Democracy Asian American Urban Experience
And I'm not doing so well right now... I put too many courses with lots of reading together and have slacked on the two "easier" courses, which now makes them hard to catch up on/do well on tests. *headdesk*
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MGT_-B605-051 Managerial Communication MGT_-B725-051 Leadership Dynamics MKT_-B735-051 New Product Development/Marketing BA__-B893-051 Doing Business in Latin America (which means I go abroad during winter break!)
Calc II Introduction to Engineering Analysis (Most schools call it Statics, I'm told) Physics I Minds and Machines (Essentially a philosophy class geared toward math/science nerdy types) Engineering Graphics and CAD
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I forgot about this thread. I was another late finalizer.
Senior Colloquium - Documentary Film Basic Problems of Philosophy - Chuck Palahniuk Science Seminar III - Math and the Mona Lisa Directed Study - Shakespeare's Tragedies Thesis
12 hours. The minimum for a full-time student but all upper-level classes so I'm pretty busy.
The Chuck Palahniuk class started out fun. Who doesn't love "Fight Club?" But all books are pretty much the same so far with just different character names.
Shakespeare is nice because we're reading the plays outloud. And its a small class with only five people enrolled (one auditing) so we dicuss alot during those four hours.
Sci Sem is same ole, same ole. The book we're reading has some pretty obvious flaws so we spend more time trying to make sense of the author's point than really digging into the bigger themes.
And Thesis is just alot of outside work, though right now I'm meeting with my advisor once a week so things are going well. He's a philosophy professor who shares a focus in religion so he's so much help when it comes to having someone to bounce ideas off of.
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They don't let me take more than 12 hours. But Leadership is mostly online, writing papers and whatnot. I'm really liking my schedule, and I'm really liking my assistantship, too. It feels really good to be doing work and knowing that it's actually going toward something, that it's actually going to help somebody get a shot at their dream. I hope they hire me as a full-time counselor when I finish. The pay would be REALLY nice for a 22-year-old kid, and the work is just so interesting.
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Alright, I know you've all been waiting. If you think Tinros is crazy. geet reaady.
Music 101 Advanced theory (Seniors) Music 122 String Quartets of Haydn and Mozart (musicology/theory) music 102 Beginning Conducting
Psychology 1 I am the only senior, so it seems, in a class of 500
performance stuff:
Guitar Ensemble Advanced Study- Guitar Rennaissance Consort (I'm directing ) I started this group University Chorus Early Music Ensemble (Voice)
I really wanted to audition for chamber singers too... maybe next quarter.
If I did register for all these units, it would be ohh 24 units. But I don't register for half the performance stuff- no need
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quote:Originally posted by Shanna: No more than 12? Are you in grad school? I forget.
Yeah, I'm in an MBA program. I took at least 18 hours a semester pretty much all through undergrad (except for summer classes, where they only let you take 12 at a time as well). It's kind of a weird change to me. And all my classes are at night. I mean, I took a lot of night classes in undergrad because there were a lot that were only offered at night, but to have NO day classes whatsoever...is weird.
I didn't know you were a music major! You think THAT'S crazy? Check this out:
* Music 277 Chamber Singers * French 202A Intermediate French II * Music 191 Italian Diction * Music 223A Musicianship III * Music 283 Performing Opera * Music PNOD Piano Lessons * Music 1 Recital Attendance * Anthropology 290C Sex and Desire in India * Music 213A Theory III * Music VOCC Voice Lessons
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Sounds like my junior schedule Raia. You are a third semester music major? Where are you right now in the repertoire/compositional style studies? I am going to assume you are covering Bach suites lately, and maybe some rococo stuff? Haydn?
In that quarter of my junior year i took
music theory musicianship keyboarding C (bach chorales all day everyday) Music Histroy- 20th century English 123- upper div- British lit. Advanced Guitar study Guitar Ensemble University Chorus
We don't get units for attending concerts, but if you don't go, everyone knows who you are. I go.
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