So I’m debating on whether or not I should take the supplementary GE M408C Course. It’s an additional four hours of class time and the only spot that fits in my schedule is also an inconvienent one, as it extends my class day until 7 on two days. It’s a class I plan on taking for physics, but I don’t think I’d need it as much for M408C. In my High School Calculus classes I got an A+ Junior Year, and an A- Senior year. However, during my senior year I slacked off and pretty much studied for the test rather than for retention and understanding and got a 2 AB and 3 BC score on the AP test. Right now what I’m thinking is to not take it and drop by for tutoring if I run into some struggles, rather than commit a large amount of time to something that might not be neccesary. So if there are any anecdotes or pieces of advice about the math or GE class, and what would be a good plan, I’d greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
Just wait till college
I took GE M408C. It will count as an elective credit (towards your 126ish total required hours for your degree depending on the degree plan). It was 2 credit hours and 100% of the grade was attendance based. It was 4 hours of the week and got out at 7 just like what you are looking at. Many student organizations meet during that 5-7pm time slot during the week so you may want to see if any organizations of interest to you conflict there. The course was ran by a graduate engineering student and had around 20-25 students. The guy leading the course would lecture for half of it and then we would work out problems (he would help us out when needed) for the last half. There is no homework. The lecturing he did was similar to the calc lecture except it’s easier to ask questions and he moved a little faster, understanding that it is what students have already seen from the lecture of their calc course.
The tutoring centers at Jester are free to students (funded by tuition) and the tutors are also UT students. The tutoring centers helped me a lot. As far as whether or not it’s a good idea to take it, that depends on many things such as: elective credit space on degree plan, amount of credit hours already signed up for, how talented you are at calculus, how good your calc professor is, etc.
Awesome, thanks so much, it was really difficult to find more info about the GE course.