<p>I was looking at signing up for one of the foreign language classes.. but they're one night a week.</p>
<p>I don't get it. Where I am now, the foreign language stuff is pretty much an every day course, or at least a MWF class..</p>
<p>How is one night a week enough time for an introductory class?</p>
<p>Also, I also don't understand why the courses listed as night time meet two nights a week, doubling the amount of time that those who meet in the middle of the day do.</p>
<p>What class are you talking about? Most 101 levels are 4 days a week.</p>
<p>SPAN 101 - ELEMENTARY SPANISH
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<p>Times vary… but they’re like ALL on Tuesday… and ONLY Tuesday.</p>
<p>That is super odd, I haven’t heard about something like that - I’m almost tempted to say it’s a bug. For Japanese AND Chinese until you get to 300 level all your classes are five days a week.</p>
<p>Is it like 12421098409210841092842197592108430921830921382109 hours long? I know I heard someone in a 100-level Spanish class that had it either once or twice a week. But each class meeting was 12421098409210841092842197592108430921830921382109 hours long. Seriously.</p>
<p>Is it an online course? I had a friend who took that class online…</p>
<p>They do have hybrid 101 courses where most of the work is online but you do meet one day a week.</p>
<p>I took a Span 101 class in the Fall that only met on Tuesdays for 50 mins. We had a small group/recitation once a week for 50 mins also. All of the work was done online and we just used the class time to discuss what we learned.</p>
<p>Nah, it’s a 50 minute class. It doesn’t say it’s an online course, but I don’t really want to learn a language that way.</p>
<p>There’s no other types of Spanish classes listed though, except the ones that meet twice a week at night, which I don’t want to do either.</p>
<p>carolinagirl, how did it work for you? Do you think you learned as much as folks who took language courses that met more often?</p>
<p>I guess I’ll switch to something else. I want to learn Arabic also</p>
<p>Personally, I did not like the format of the class. It’s basically self-taught. That could go well for some people, but I would rather have a regular professor (especially because it’s a 4 credit class). Supposedly you learn the same things as people in regular classes, but it didn’t seem like it.</p>
<p>I highly recommend Arabic… I had 101 with Nasser Isleem and it was one of my favorite classes at Carolina</p>
<p>In general, if we took a language for two years during high school, will we almost always place into level two (assuming we did pretty well in the classes), or are the level one classes really intense?</p>
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<p>What I’ve heard is that high school foreign language classes tend to be a joke.</p>
<p>So I should expect to place into level one? Ugh, it’s just that my placement test is in an uncommon language, so it’s in August, and CTOPS is in June.</p>
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<p>Depends on how good your class was. My APAH teacher was talking about several students to get 100’s in their foreign language classes and place into level one. My counselor took her 2 years and walked out of the ECU placement test exam telling the proctor she was in the wrong place. Then again, I don’t know anything about the UNC placement test. I’m glad I’ve gotten that requirement out of the way while I’m in high school.</p>
<p>egghead, what made it so awesome?</p>
<p>I’d really like to take all levels of a language class with the same professor if that’s even possible, not sure if it is…</p>
<p>THere was lots of group participation, and he was always bringing in the culture too. We had a few cultural events, and he even invited us to his house to celebrate an iftar.</p>
<p>That sounds awesome. I signed up for one of his courses, but right now the schedule is pretty crappy.</p>
<p>I’d like to get in another section. I can’t believe there’s only 11 seats total for an introductory language class, that seems really small… which is good, but also bad since it’s unlikely I’ll be able to get in the section I want :)</p>
<p>From what I’ve been reading there is a lot of work involved in doing well in his course… how many hours a day would you say you spent on it?</p>
<p>My upcoming semester so far has:</p>
<p>Organic Chemistry I, Biology 101 w/Lab, Arabic 101, Psychology 210 (Statistical Principles of Psychological Research), and then a Lifetime Fitness course.</p>
<p>I’m hoping I have enough time to do well in all of those and still have time to do some volunteering at the hospital or find a research position.</p>
<p>I probably spent an hour tops for each class… but the effort is worth it because you learn quite a bit in one semester</p>
<p>Small language classes are awesome, because you really get a chance to speak, which is kind of what it’s all about.</p>
<p>Don’t write off highschool language classes. I didn’t take AP french, and I wouldn’t say my school had a particularly amazing french program (I think there were maybe 40 kids total who studied it all throughout highschool in a class of 450) but I still was placed into the 252/260 French.</p>
<p>Remember that while many langauge classes are taught by TAs, many of these TAs are native speakers who can teach you things that you would never learn otherwise.</p>
<p>My conversation class met 3 times a week for 50 minutes.</p>