<p>i forgot to mention that they give you 3 choices in case you don't get picked for your first elective. and then you can minor in some other thing you really want to.</p>
<p>Placement Exames for new students:
FRIDAY, August 25th
4:30 p.m.-6:15 p.m. Foreign Language Placement Test
Huntington Beard Crouse (HBC) Hall, as follows:</p>
<p>Chinese: Room 321
French: Kitteredge Auditorium
German: Room 306
Hebrew: Room 311A
Hindi: Room 312
Italian: Room 209
Japanese: Room 328
Latin: Room 213A
Russian: Room 323
Southeast Asian: Room 312
Spanish: Gifford Auditorium</p>
<p>If you are a first-year or transfer student who has had any previous language instruction and plan to continue studies in a particular language, you must take the appropriate examination. Students who took either a French or Spanish placement examination as part of a mail registration and were told to take the long exam, or who were dissatisfied with their placement, may take the examination, as should all students planning to continue any of the other listed languages.</p>
<p>New students who did not take the placement test over the summer or students wishing to re-test. if students have questions about Greek, Polish, Tamil, Turkish, Portuguese, or Arabic language testing, contact Barbara Moon, Languages, Literature, and Linguistics Office at 315-443-5906, or speak to your school or college advising office.</p>
<p>I took the math and spanish online. what are these exams just for those who choose not to do it online and is it any different?</p>
<p>"If you are a first-year or transfer student who has had any previous language instruction and plan to continue studies in a particular language, you must take the appropriate examination. Students who took either a French or Spanish placement examination as part of a mail registration and were told to take the long exam, or who were dissatisfied with their placement, may take the examination, as should all students planning to continue any of the other listed languages."</p>
<p>a) You feel the online placement exam was a bad judge of your level, and want to take a more comprehensive test</p>
<p>b) No online test is offered for the language you wish to study, and you have prior experience in it</p>
<p>do yall have the links to the online exams??</p>
<p>it came with your course reg. packet i'm pretty sure</p>
<p>whatever you do, I strongly recommend you don't take astronomy! I know about 15 people who have taken it who are pretty smart and worked hard but they all told me it's a horrible class, with unfair grading, etc. I took bio which wasn't too bad, but I've heard forensic science is an easy A and also fills that requirement. I would say five classes it the usual amount for freshman, try it but if it's too overwhelming you can always drop one.</p>
<p>also to whoever was talking about taking it, human sexuality is CFS388 Human Sexuality, not the class you named, so maybe you signed up for a different class or something.</p>
<p>i actualyl dont rmemeber seieng any links or talk about exams in my reg packet.</p>
<p>forensic science isn't on my course list, do sophs normally take it?</p>
<p>I took a different class with the professor who teaches Forensic Science (Jim Spencer), did absolutely no work, and got an A. Which isn't to say you will be quite so lucky in that other class. But he is a very reasonable and down-to-earth guy. He was talking about it to us one day, and cautioned that many students think it is CSI stuff, but really isnt. You need to learn some anatomy, some chemistry, biology, and all that fun stuff. Unless you are truly interested in it, I would recommend you stay away :p</p>
<p>yeah, big spence is the man... i had him as my honors seminar prof. he took us apple picking and we all made dinner at his house!</p>
<p>apple picking!!! oh yea!!</p>
<p>Yes indeed - honors students get their asses kissed by the university :p
Which isnt to speak bad of those involved in the program (god knows, they do far more work than should EVER be necessary for a college degree (or should they maybe stop handing out degrees quite so easily? (well, if that were the case, I sure wouldn't be working towards one))), but the college is very exclusive with them. I had taken Intro Poli Sci at college and in high school (AP and another college-equivalent course), for a total of 3 times (there was a lot to learn, each course was different, and I truly enjoyed it (no it wasnt just for easy grade)), and yet despite all those qualifications, I still was unable to get into Honors Intro to Poli Sci, a course I felt catered EXACTLY to my needs and interests. I ended up getting an A in PSC121 without ever cracking the book, taking notes, or doing ANYTHING other than the minimum required papers (and literally did those from my head). So, I think the University's policy towards the Honors program is very arrogant. This past year they enacted a new program, with far more stringent guidelines and ridiculous requirements. It has scared many qualified students away - I hadn't known of the program until I arrived on campus in the fall, and was considering it when mid-year they announced the new curriculum. So, hell no to that. I'd much rather party on the weekend then spend all my time out of class, working on projects, homework, interviews, and the 50 million other insane things they make you do (all for what amounts to nothing special, come time to graduate).</p>
<p>...are you for real? I'm in honors and at the meeting at orientation they basically said most of our requirements were fulfilled by chance along the way and the sr capstone proj was basically the only thing to worry about but we get benifits like first registration. But we have to keep a 3.5 overall...Is that hard to do at SU? People tell me my high school is harder than most colleges, but I'll never know till i get there, and I hope by then my senioritis will go away.</p>
<p>I went to one of the top public schools in the country (got lucky and was sent out of my poor-ass district because they didn't offer ANY advanced courses). Anyway, we would do 7 pages of notes a night in Macro Econ, a quiz a week in honors/accelerated Latin, and they started us writing research papers in Sophomore year English / History. Even had a few lectures (loved those - and since going to college, have found they are SO much more efficient for learning)</p>
<p>Coming to Syracuse, I expected to work my ass off. I had taken courses at Yale, and busted my ass - 3 hour "quiz" each week, 3 hours in each class every day, 6 days a week. 10 pages of notes a night, a chapter a day...absolutely insane. But, like it or not, I learned soooo much. Then I get to SU, and the place is a total joke. I was able to breeze through ALL my classes without reading more than 30 pages the ENTIRE YEAR (no exaggeration what-so-ever). I just paid careful attention in class and took notes on everything. I suppose I'm quite good at research and writing papers, so they were never an issue. But the classes are just a total joke. I learned more at Yale in a month than I have in all my classes at SU, the entire year. Instead of the 6-8 page papers due in high school, or the 10-15 pagers @ Yale, theyre 2-3 pages. My longest at SU so far has been 12 pages (Julie Cooper's class - I wrote it on Bush's rhetoric of a "culture of life" and how it relates to Catholic doctrine). But not one other has been longer than 7 pages. Most are 2-3, which is a total travesty / joke / waste of time. That means, you aren't doing research, but you are simply spitting back information they just taught you. NOT what I expected, for $42k a year.</p>
<p>I <em>had</em> a 3.5 until I took french this semester - without that class, I'd have a 3.65 - but it killed me and took my semester GPA to 3.15 instead. I'm not making that mistake again - I'm going back to good ole Latin next year.</p>
<p>Eh, point is, SU is a joke, they steal your money and don't teach you much, its incredibly over-rated (and if it isnt, well, that speaks especially poorly of those colleges who rated worse than us)</p>
<p>yikes. Hey is Japanese hard? it could drag down my grade, but i really want to take it..</p>
<p>i wanna take jap too. the language doesnt seem that hard to me. once i studied my hiragana and katakana and a little kanji i got an A on the final. its just the oral. im too country. my accent gets in the way BAD.</p>
<p>i mean, are the japanese teachers at Syracuse hard to get an A or B in?</p>
<p>What else does Jim Spencer teach sides Forensic Science? It sounds like the Chem in modern world -- Forensic Science sequence is the best lab sequence to go for right now...unless someone wants to support BIO or one of the earth science sequences? Does anyone know anything about Ernest Hemphill? (He's teaching HNR 250-17703 History/Natural History of Medicinal Plants). What about Richard Pilgrim (for Reliogions of the world-honors)? Does prof Cooke teach PSC 139 (Internaltional relations 'Honors') as well?</p>
<p>I'll answer all your questions here instead of in two separate threads:</p>
<h2>"What else does Jim Spencer teach sides Forensic Science? It sounds like the Chem in modern world -- Forensic Science sequence is the best lab sequence to go for right now...unless someone wants to support BIO or one of the earth science sequences? Does anyone know anything about Ernest Hemphill? (He's teaching HNR 250-17703 History/Natural History of Medicinal Plants). What about Richard Pilgrim (for Reliogions of the world-honors)? Does prof Cooke teach PSC 139 (Internaltional relations 'Honors') as well?</h2>
<p>Is the bio sequence hard? Can GOL 200 (which replaces a course from the general Natural Sci and Math list due to AP Enviro Sci) replace a GOL course in a sequence, so that I can just take the other LAB course and have a seuence fulfilled? (That would be splendid!) And can sequences be split into separate years, like Spring'07 Fall '07? Do we get to choose our professors? (And do honors students get first pick of professors for the fall? They get first registration starting in the second semester, u see, but i dont know about teachers.) Do you reccomend Religions of the world regular or honors? (And I mentioned this in the other thread but, does Cooke teach International Relations honors as well?) Thanks, Anarchy!! Btw, what's your name? Can I add you to facebook?"</p>
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<p>I took SOL300 with Jim Spencer last semester - Practicum in Social Sciences. It was continuing the work of a weekend seminar a bunch of us attended in the fall, regarding the rebuilding of New Orleans, and the design of future cities. There were 6 or 7 of us - I think I was the only non-honors student there. We met once a week or so, when our schedules allowed, and were to conduct interviews with relevant people (professors, city officials, business owners, that kinda thing). It's my understanding that honors students are required to do a class like this, though not necessarily through the Soling program (a privately-endowed program that focuses on experiental learning, rather than book-learning). Other than that, I am not sure what other courses he does, besides Forensic Science.</p>
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<p>I don't know anything about the first two professors you name. As for Prof. Cooke, I ran a search through the MySlice class listings; he teaches HNR360 Social Science Honors - Nations & States: Ethnicity in IR, PHI/PSC363 Ethics & IR, and PSC357 American Foreign Policy. They all have spots available, although PHI363 has 2 remaining and you need consent of the dept. to get in.</p>
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<p>Me = Kaylen Thorpe (the one and only). Add me, poke me, scribble on my wall - I don't care :-) </p>
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<p>I would never take biology, but my friends all agreed that it was quite hard. I helped them study a few times, and I can tell you that it is WAAAAAAY too much memorization and details. </p>
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<p>The GOL200 question, I don't know - you will have to ask the department. Each department has a website, so find the geology one and email somebody in there.</p>
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<p>Sequences can be fulfilled however you wish - you can take the first part in your freshman year, and then the 2nd part in your junior year (hypothetically). You just haev to make sure that, by the time you graduate, you meet the requirements of your major, of the honors program, and, if you are in College of A&S, the liberal arts core. Best to keep an eye on it early, than have to worry about it your senior year - some of the requirements are sneaky.</p>
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<p>You choose your professors when you make your schedule. It will take you a bit of getting used to at first, but you register all classes online through MySlice. You make a list of the classes you are interested in, then use the registration page to search for sections of that class. Introductory courses like PHI107 have tons of sections (numbered m001, m002, etc). They will be taught by TAs, but other courses, like PSC124 or 125 for example, will have a specific professor listed, and specific times. You have to make sure that your schedule fits, classes don't overlap, and all that stuff. But this allows you to pick your profs. On the other hand, you may be faced with getting your favorite prof in an 8am class, or a crappy one at a more reasonable 11am class - I figure, its college, its lotsa money, and I'll suffer through the early class (especially if I know I'll like it, or if I like the prof (no matter how early it is, Prof Cooke keeps me awake b/c he is so interesting)). If you really want to get into a class badly, and it is full, try showing up the first few days of class - many people drop and change courses, the first week or two. You can usually weasel your way into some of the more popular ones, but will need to eventually register once a spot becomes available (talk to the prof. after class on Day 1 about this).</p>
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<p>I don't know how honors students register for classes, and I haven't taken Religions of the world either. I suppose if you are interested in it, then go for it. I would consider myself agnostic, but I LOVE theology (particularly Judeo-Christian), and am hoping to take a course or two in it during my years in college. We have some very good profs in the religion and philosophy depts - but again, you sorta have to be interested in these things to do well in them. </p>
<p>Thats the biggest thing about college - with a curious mind, most of your "required" courses won't seem much like requirements - my interests have a broad span, and so I have found courses to meet just about all the requirements - and I'd probably have taken them even if they weren't "required"</p>
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<p>weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! I thank you!</p>