Fall 08 Schedule

[AHeartLikeHis]

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<p>I took 15 credit hours and got EXACTLY what I wanted </p>

<p>M-F College Algebra 8:00-8:50
MWF Public Speaking 9:00-9:50
MWF U.S. History 10:00-10:50
TR English Composition 2:00-3 :15
W Fundamentals of Psychology 5:00-7:45</p>

<p>I exempted out of the Regents Reading Exam... and did not take the essay with the ACT so I take that on like October 20th....but writing is my forte, so it will be easy.</p>

<p>What do ya'll think?</p>

[nontraditional]

<p>Sounds good to me.</p>

<p>You’ve got a variety of kinds of classes, it looks like they probably help you meet requirements and start figuring out what’s out there that you might want to take as an elective, and it’s a schedule you like.</p>

<p>Good luck with it. I hope you’ll let us know how it works out.</p>

[cameliasinensis]

<p>edit: Sorry, I’m tired. I thought this thread was for everyone to post their schedules and didn’t realize you were asking for advice on yours (which looks good, by the way).</p>

[chuy]

<p>You’re going to HATE wednesdays but otherwise the schedule is good.</p>

[OKgirl]

<p>You better hope your classes are by each other since and they don’t run late.</p>

<p>Chuy–I actaully enjoyed my evening class. Why do most people think that they are so bad? Maybe things will change for me when I’m actually living on campus and I’ll understand why they are so dreadful.</p>

[AHeartLikeHis]

<p>The 8 and 9 class are in the same building, the 10 is in the building next to the first… now often do classes run late? And if that happens, cant just just sneak out at the given time?</p>

[erhswimming]

<p>I’ve never had a problem with classes running late. Only on quiz/test days really. Profs usually understand that you have other classes to get to.</p>

[OKgirl]

<p>I had a chem prof that let us out 30 minutes early every day. I had a math prof that ran 15-30 minutes late almost every time. I had another prof that would alway let us out at exactly the time class ended. Same thing goes for them starting class on time, but on a shorter time scale. Some teachers care, others don’t. </p>

<p>There is no way of is knowing how often classes run late. You could try talking to someone that goes to that school to see if any profs usually run late. If you have one that does, you could always tell the professor of the next class that the previous one runs late so you will be late most days (I don’t know if it really matters for a huge class–the biggest I’ll ever have is 70 students). I personally would never get up and just leave class (unless it is during a break) because that just seems rude.</p>

<p>If I were you, I’d actually try to move the public speaking class to a later time in the day. If you do that then you could have time to review between classes and stuff like that.</p>

[Venkat89]

<p>Switch your math class. Trust me, 8AM every day in college is not like high school. Then again, I had friends who had 8AM and 9AM classes everyday and made it work. You do what you have to do.</p>

[bjt223]

<p>I don’t want to make another thread, but can someone post their Fall 08 schedule here?</p>

[Pistolen08]

<p>Business Statistics
TH 12:30-1:45pm
F 8:00-8:50am</p>

<p>Elementary Japanese 2
MTWHF 9:00-9:55am</p>

<p>Intro to Astronomy
TH 2:00-3:15pn</p>

<p>Intro to Astronomy Lab
T 8:00-10:00pm</p>

<p>Total= 15 hours</p>

<p>Imaginative Writing (short fictional stories)
MW 12:30-1:45</p>

<p>First Year Experience (I might drop this)
TR 11:00-12:15</p>

<p>Total = 15 hours</p>

[cameliasinensis]

<p>Government 4: Comparative Politics
MWF 10:00 - 11:05</p>

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This course will introduce students to the field of comparative government and politics through an examination of selected political systems. Special attention will be given to analytic techniques involved in the study of the field and to certain basic concepts, such as power and political culture, decision-making, and communications.

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<p>Biology 2: Human Biology
MWF 11:15 - 12:20</p>

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A course designed to help students (biologists and non-biologists) understand the biological basis of human health and disease. The course will emphasize the fundamental aspects of biochemistry, genetics, cell and molecular biology, physiology, anatomy, reproductive biology, and function of various organs as they relate to humans. Particular emphasis will be placed on specific topics in human health and disease and how these issues affect us all individually in our own health and collectively in our international society.

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<p>Studio Art 29: Photography I - I’ve done black and white photography before, but this is a requirement for the upper-level courses.
TuTh 10:00 - 11:50</p>

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An introductory course concentrating on the fundamentals of operating and understanding a camera: black and white film processing and printmaking techniques, and the use of the camera as a tool of creative expression. Assignments in landscape, portraiture, and still life will be used to introduce a broad range of photographic problems.

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<p>Government 59: Foreign Policy Decision Making – I didn’t get into this course, but I’m on the waitlist, and since I don’t have anything else that time I think I’ll just keep showing up to class until the professor lets me in. I really don’t want to be taking all introductory courses this fall!
TuTh 14:00 - 15:50</p>

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The objectives of this course are to introduce the most influential theoretical approaches to the study of strategic decision-making in political science and to apply and evaluate these approaches in a series of historical and contemporary case studies of foreign policy. These immediate objectives serve a larger purpose: to make you a better strategist and more sophisticated analyst of foreign policy. The empirical focus of the course is on states and their problems, but its basic precepts are applicable to other domains as well. Each of the decision-making theories we study represents a venerable tradition of social science scholarship. Mastering them can contribute to the acquisition of extremely useful analytical and critical skills. The first four sections of the course introduce the four most basic models of strategic decision-making and explore them in selected case studies. The last section provides an opportunity to integrate the different models in a series of case studies and simulations exercises involving the foreign policies of major powers.

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[cameliasinensis]

<p>By the way, Venkat89 is right about the morning classes. I had an 08:45 statistics class this term, and even though I made it to every class, I was almost never on time, and I spent the term in a haze of sleep deprivation. I don’t care how good the class is, if it starts before 10:00, I won’t take it.</p>

<p>edit: That said, I’m a girl and wake up at 08:00 for a 10:00 class, so if you’re content rolling out of bed, skipping breakfast, and running to class in your pajamas, you may find it more manageable.</p>

[AHeartLikeHis]

<p>I get up every morning at 5am…I am ready by 6, and the dining hall opens at 7:00, so that is perfect.</p>

[kelseyg]

<p>I don’t like evening classes because I’m hanging out with all of my friends or getting ready to go to dinner… and then I have to leave for class and miss it. I’ve also never had a problem with classes running late (if that’s the case you’ll probably be able to just leave.)</p>

<p>Are you going to be a first-year student? Getting up at 5 in college is ridiculous. Most of the people on your floor and most of your friends will want to hang out at night (during the day they’re busy with classes, homework, eating, sports, clubs, whatever). There’s a reason the dining hall doesn’t open until 7. I wouldn’t assume that you’re going to stick to the same sleeping schedule as you had in high school.</p>

[AUlostchick]

<p>you wake up at 5am now… college is a whole other world compared to high school. If you wake up everyday in college at 5 am and ready by 6, color me freaking impressed, but I sincerely doubt you’ll do that after you’ve been in college a few weeks and get in the hang of staying out with friends til 1 or 2 every night (at the earliest).</p>