Hi was wondering if taking 3 classes over the summer would be too much? The classes are pre calculus, public speaking, and Object Oriented Programming C++. My goal is to transfer in 2 years and this the only way how.
If one or more of these classes is an online class, or partial online class, that would help. 3 classes over the summer takes up pretty much the same amount of time as 6 classes in a normal semester (depending on which CCC), which is pretty much the equivalent of doing a 9-5 job. Doable, but it’s a load.
That’s a heavy summer.
It could work if you stagger them. My D took 4 classes over the summer between her first and second years of college. The first summer session, she took 2 classes on campus - they were 4 days a week, 3 hours each day per class. The week before those classes ended, she started an online class and when the 2 classes ended, she took a continuation of one of the classes (ASL) on campus for the second summer session. It was a long, tough summer, but she earned 12 credits and satisfied 3 gen eds.
^^^^ Agreed. But keep in mind that’s Calc and programming in truncated sessions. Social sciences and arts and humanities are another thing. I’m not sure what your daughter took, but many a person up here has miscalculated and their bones are scattered around for all to see. Not saying he can’t do it. He just needs to assess the risk factor.
How long is the summer session? I took a science course, a software development course, and a gerontology course. It was quite doable because of how things were structured. The software development course started about a week after my science course ended and the gerontology course was entirely online. I really enjoy online courses as I’m usually very productive in the early morning hours (3am-7am) and my software development class was from 3PM to 8PM twice a week. Summer classes are basically like the regular semester in rush mode. You cover the exact same content - only much faster than you would otherwise. If the public speaking course was a hybrid course, I can see this working out. I took a public speaking hybrid course and we only had to show up for class three times the entire semester to give our speeches. We weren’t saddled with a lot of the busy work that the traditional public speaking classes had.
Summer Courses
- Check with your college to see what courses would be accepted. Talk to your adviser.
- Do you have financial aid for college? If so, how do you pay for summer classes?
- Summer classes are condensed…You take 15 weeks of classes in 8 or 6 or 4 weeks. Remember that each “week” of a typical 3 credit class is 3 hours of the class + 2 to 3 hours of studying/reading/homework per class hour, so that means 9-12 hours of work per “week”…so if you are taking a 8 week summer course, you have to fit 15 x 10 hours (for ease) in 8 weeks, so that would be 20 hours per week per course. So don’t take more than two 8 week classes at a time as that is the equivalent of a full time job. If you are taking 6 week only take 1 at a time.
Me and my friend just graduated from high school this year and in summer we both decided to take classes. I ended up taking Calc 1 and Eng1A but my friend took a crazy amount of classes. He took Eng1a, eng1b, Philosophy, Ethnic Studies, and sociology. He pulled off a 4.0. He doubted he would be able to do it but he did.
Public speaking shouldnt be too bad but depending on how good your math or coding skills already are precalculus and object programming can be a killer.
If the school is on the semester system, a summer session is probably about half as long as a fall or spring semester (~8 weeks instead of 15 weeks). This means that you would take half as many courses or credits in the summer to have an equivalent load in a fall or spring semester (i.e. if you normally take 15 units in fall or spring, you would take 7-8 units in summer).
If the school is on the quarter system, a summer session should be a regular 10 week quarter, in which case you can take a normal course load in the summer.