<p>Hey, I know that there is a lot of reading that goes on at UofChicago. Just how muchin numbers? 20-50 per week per class? Just 40 per week?</p>
<p>I know that this is hard to predict as most professors are different and it depends on the class, but give your best estimate.</p>
<p>Another thing, I timed myself at reading, and I read at about 22-25 pages an hour of a econ book ("Naked Economics" by Charles Wheelan); Am I incredibly slow? What's your average?</p>
<p>BTW "Naked Economics" is a great read with great econ expamples. I'm really enjoying it. I don't know how it compares to "Freakonomics" though, because everytime I got the library to rent it out the clerk says, "We're currently renting them all out," then she calmly sips her coffee, and starts reading Davinchi Code. "She is so over-paid" I think to myself as I drag my feet across the carpet exiting the library.</p>
<p>In a class that's reading-based, like hum, sosc, or civ, you'll easily be reading a few hundered pages per week, at least. In classes which are not, like science and math, you'll figure out how much to read yourself in order to understand the material. Some classes like core bio and economics have assigned readings, too. I imagine in that case it's comparable to reading-based classes.</p>
<p>The amount of reading depends on the course/professor. 100 pages a week for a reading class would be normal. 200 pages wouldn't be that odd. I've had 300, and even 400 pages in a week before, but that's a lot for one class (and in such cases the professor is trusting that the students will be able to figure out which parts need to be read more closely). </p>
<p>For a HUM or SOSC class where you'll be be discussing it and a pretty close reading is expected, 50-60 pages for a class (twice a week) is probably about normal. Less is common. More isn't that strange either. It really varies from professor to professor (and whether they tell you up front what parts they want to focus on and don't bother assigning the rest, or whether they assign the whole thing and let students figure out what's important). I had a quarter of SOSC where the readings (twice a week) were all ~30 pages, I know people who were taking the same flavor of SOSC with a lot more reading.</p>
<p>For an Intro to [insert area of study] class, lots more pages might be expected, but a super-close reading wouldn't be necessary.</p>
<p>So basically, the amount of reading depends. Taking courses mainly in the social sciences, plus core stuff, I've had anywhere from a couple hundred to 1,000 pages to read in a week (and sometimes that range happens in the same quarter with the same course schedule).</p>
<p>Oh, and Naked Economics is one of the books for ECON 198 (Intro to Microeconomics). It's used alongside a more traditional text, but some of the exam questions actually came straight out of Naked Economics. </p>
<p>To answer your question about time, that's not incredibly slow. I read Naked Economics faster when I was in the class, but I wasn't reading it that closely. I would say 20-25 pages an hour in a book formatted (spacing & font) like Naked Economics is about how fast I read when reading closely for something like SOSC, where I need to be able to discuss it and refer to the text in class. That's not very quick, and if I need to get through a lot and won't have to be prepared to discuss it in class, I'll go quite a bit faster.</p>
<p>^^^^^^^^^^^^^thanx^^^^^^^^^^^</p>