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It is actually called "Fundamentals of Economics" and it is a mix of macro and micro stuff. It is EC205 at NCSU. It is one of the more popular elective classes.
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Interesting. It is allowed as a pre-req to both intermediate micro and intermediate macro, which is good. It would be possible to do an economics degree somewhat more quickly, there. I'm of the opinion that intro to micro and intro to micro are easily substituted for (which is what I did ), so I'm all for a class that makes getting them out of the way earlier.
Hopefully they'll even teach about macro by using microfoundations. It is perhaps a little too much to hope that use calculus instead of those annoying piecewise tables, though . . .
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quote:Originally posted by Jhai: In a week & a half I start MATH CAMP!!! (It's 2 weeks of math, five hours a day with about 5 hours worth of daily problem sets. Yeah... should be, uh, fun.)
This one time at Math Camp... I ate Pi.
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quote:Originally posted by breyerchic04: In Texas are you allowed to student teach at your old high school? We're not supposed to here (I know a music student who got to).
Yeah, we're allowed to. In fact, a few people are doing internships at their old schools. It's sort of neat.
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Veterinary Anatomy Veterinary Physiology I Histology and Cytology Careers in Veterinary Medicine Clinical Problem Solving-Evidence Based Medicine Veterinary Pathogenic Bacteriology and Mycology Health Maintenance & Animal Production I
Plus 2 selectives I have have not signed up for just yet.
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16 credits: Reason and the Self Intermediate Creative Writing Approaches to Literature Western Civilization II Programming Fundamentals (this is one I'm retaking) Jogging
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quote:Originally posted by breyerchic04: In Texas are you allowed to student teach at your old high school? We're not supposed to here (I know a music student who got to).
Just out of curiosity, what's the rationale for why you're not supposed to?
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777: feel free to ask for programming help 'round here, some of us have decent backgrounds there .
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Engineering & Computer Graphics Fundamentals of game design (just for fun) Logic & Critical thinking (humanities elective) Mechanics and I'll have to wait to see if they'll let me into Computer Algorithms
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Rationale I have been told for not working at high school- difficult to be taken seriously when your boss remembers you as a pimply teenager.
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Anthropology of Religion Elements of Cultural Geography Contemporary Issues in Pro. Writing Journalism 1
But i'm tossing around the idea of switching my major from Professional Writing to English Literature. I'm not sure, though. I have a lot of dreams of being a novelist, or a writer for tv shows or movies...but i never write. Ever. And i feel like if i'm not writing now, when it's my major and my career aspiration, then I'm never going to.
So i think if i switch it to English Lit i would go for a masters in the same, and then try to teach college level literature. I don't know. I go back and forth everyday!
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And you're not getting as much new information, because you already know how that school works.
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I see. Actually, I student taught at my old high school for a while. The other teachers seemed to think it was pretty neat to see me back and my students wanted to see my yearbook picture. The only weird part was getting used to calling my old teachers by their first names and seeing them act like regular people between classes.
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quote:Originally posted by Leonide: Currently my schedule is:
Anthropology of Religion Elements of Cultural Geography Contemporary Issues in Pro. Writing Journalism 1
But i'm tossing around the idea of switching my major from Professional Writing to English Literature. I'm not sure, though. I have a lot of dreams of being a novelist, or a writer for tv shows or movies...but i never write. Ever. And i feel like if i'm not writing now, when it's my major and my career aspiration, then I'm never going to.
So i think if i switch it to English Lit i would go for a masters in the same, and then try to teach college level literature. I don't know. I go back and forth everyday!
It sounds to me like switching to English Lit would be your best option. In fact, it sounds like that's what you've already decided to do. And if you do decide writing is still what interests you, an English Lit degree isn't exactly going to hurt.
I feel so...inexperienced next to all of you. I'm 24 and I just started taking college classes last fall. Right now I'm taking 3-4 classes per semester online through the USG's eCore program. It's very convenient, and it's giving me some time to decide exactly what I want to do. This semester I'm taking American Lit, Ancient World History, and Geology. So exciting, huh?
Ericka's got her goals set (double major in English Lit and Film Studies), but I'm still pretty confused. I've been toying with the idea of doing something with Philosophy and English, but I'm just not sure how practical that would be.
quote:So i think if i switch it to English Lit i would go for a masters in the same, and then try to teach college level literature. I don't know. I go back and forth everyday!
Actually, with the glut of English Ph.D.s, it's very hard to teach at the college level without one, even at junior colleges where an M.A. used to be fine.
Not that I want to discourage you. After all, I'm getting a Ph.D. in Literature, which is, if anything less useful than a Ph.D. in English (but marginally more useful than my M.A. in English).
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What Loren said. You can find a job on the instructor level teaching freshman comp and lit survey courses with a master's but you don't get paid squat. High school teachers make more than English instructors with MAs at universities around here.
A buddy of mine does it, though and loves it. He teaches I think three classes a semester, one of them online, and has lots of time to spend with his kids and to work on his real love - playwrighting. So, I'm not trying to discourage you either, just letting you know the realistic expectations you can have if you're looking for a job at the university level with only a MA.
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Satire (a seminar in the English department) Intro to Discrete Mathematics (last class for my minor!) Philosophy and Literature Drawing I (if I can get in, which is very unlikely because my school's art department is evil) If I don't get into Drawing: maybe Japanese 3. Or something completely different. Who knows.
This is just what I'm signed up for at the moment; it's highly subject to change. There are basically only three classes I absolutely have to take, and one of them is in the spring. Everything else is pretty fluid. Ahh, the joys of being a senior.
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I'm thinking of sitting in on a course in Latent Structure Models for high-dimensional data analysis.
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I can't believe you're already a senior! Wow! Time flies.
I am loving my classes and profs so far. Of course, one of the great things about being a senior also is that in your major, you have probably had all the profs before so they know you. But even the ones who were new to me seem pretty cool.
My Milton class is going to be so great. We spend a couple weeks warming up with some poetry of his and one prose piece, then we spend the rest of the semester on Paradise Lost. We have two short papers to write and one large research project, where we have to make an oral report on our findings but do not have to write it up in paper form (at least, undergrads like me don't - those taking it for master's credit do have to write a 15 page paper).
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ballet modern modern jazz fundamentals of choreography history of american dance native american history intro to linguistic anthropology
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I'm technically done with coursework, but my profs prodding me into taking another Dante seminar (taught by a distinguished visiting scholar) and auditing a seminar on Imitation in Renaissance Lit.
And I'll be teaching Italian again. Woo hoo.
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Woo hoo. In order to student teach this semester, I had to pass (at least) my content area TExES (Texas Examinations of Educator Standards) test. I passed both my content and my Pedagogy and Professional Responsibilities tests though. So I get to student teach, and once I get done with that then I'll be fully certified as a teacher. Hooray.
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I feel so jealous of the people with 15 or 16 hours. I've never had less than 25 in a semester.
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All right, finally finalized my final schedule...finally.
Anthropology of Religion Music from Ancient Times to 1825 Elements of Cultural Geography Shakespeare's Early Plays Women in Mathematics
The music, geography, and math classes are gen eds, required for the major, and the Shakespeare class is specifically major-related, and the anthropology class is for kicks. However, this means I have FIVE classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, one right after another with only one hour break in the middle for lunch. 0_0 intense...especially since after one of the classes, I have to book it all the way to the complete opposite side of campus in 10 minutes for the next class!
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Ugh, this topic inspires a gigantic rant in me. This is my final year at university, and I'm taking fourth-choice classes for a number of reasons, largely including the fact that all the classes I was particularly interested in were listed in the course booklet but not actually offered! Surprise! This includes things like: The Psycology of Politics, History of Electricity, The Golden Myth (about Saints), and about a zillion more. When I was picking courses, it was almost farcical. "Oh, that sounds interesting!... Oh, it's not offered." This happened- I'm not exaggerating- about ten times, which is twice the number of courses I need. It seems that my interests vary sharply from the average or simply that the university I attend hates me with the heat of a thousand suns.
In addition, I didn't get into the Creative Writing course, a fact I was initially happy about because it meant I could take the History of Electricity course I had been interested in. Of course, it wasn't actually offered. It also meant I could take a 400-level course (unless you're doing a specialist, you don't have to- crazy, I know), but getting into the one I want is going to require ninja-like luck; there are six people ahead of me on the list and only 20 spaces in the class.
As I stand, I am taking:
International Law - I'm most interested in the clientele this class should attract. I expect everyone to have a laptop, a strong political opinion, a way of saving the world, and an Evil Overlord complex.
The High Middle Ages - I'm actually looking forward to this.
ENG322 - Fiction before 1832. ENG202 - Poetry and Prose 1500-1600 - These two because I need two classes that fit into an "A" category. English before 1800. I assume the top one counts, although I should probably double-check that.
Hopefully, ENG422 - "Writing About Cities"; books and authors who write about and in and around cities. It sounds fascinating and if I get in I hope it makes up for my other disappointments.
However, none of these classes begin before 11:00am, and the rest of my year should be full of extracurriculars and other exciting things.
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Environmental History of the United States HIST 3800
College Algebra. MAT 950
Which one stands out?
For Intro to Law and Politics one of the required readings is State of Fear by Michael Crichton! How cool is that?
I'm pretty excited about this semester. It's going to be alot of work, but fortunately I was able to modify my work shift so that it wraps around my schedule rather then just pushing things out of the way.
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