<p>I plan on transferring to a new university for the fall semester and order to compete I must complete 24 credit hours. Last semester I took 4 classes but dropped one of them at the beginning of the term and chose not replace it due to already being 2 weeks into classes. Therefore, I'm considering in taking the following 5 classes for my winter term:</p>
<p>Winter semester:
-Macroeconomics
-Religion in Media
-Calculus
-Critical Thinking (PHIL)
-Anthropology </p>
<p>I've received negative feedback from my friends on this consideration such as "course overloading". It would be greatly appreciated for some feedback that's not from my nitwit friends on rather, if taking 5 course is too much to handle and/or too overwhelming for a freshman?</p>
<p>How many credits is this and how many classes is normal for your college? I say 5 is standard (16 credits) at my school but I would assume it varies on many conditions. Are you good with a decent/heavy workload? Do you have other obligations, like work, that could potentially bring your grades down? Are these classes like intro (100-200 level) or are they more advanced (300-400 level)? </p>
<p>Assuming you are taking about 14-16 credits with those classes and the majority are 100-200 level, and you’re working less than 20-25 hours or not at all, and have no other serious time-consuming obligations, five classes sounds like a reasonable workload.</p>
<p>Do any of the courses have labs (looks like not), large term projects, or huge amounts of reading?</p>
<p>How do they compare to the courses you took last semester?</p>
<p>Nominally, if you take N semester hour credit units’ worth of courses, your should expect to put in N*3 hours per week of work total (including both in-class and out-of-class time). However, actual workloads in college are somewhat less than that, unless you have high workload courses (labs, large term projects, huge amounts of reading).</p>
<p>I don’t think that schedule is unreasonable. Calculus will be the hardest class so if you can learn the material well for that class I don’t think the others would be much of a problem.</p>