<p>Has anyone ever read a couple books on a course(e.g. macroeconomics, Western Civilization) over the summer and taken an examination later in the fall for credits?</p>
<p>If this is possible, what do you think are the easiest courses to teach yourself?</p>
<p>I would take a summer course on the topic, but money is tight...</p>
<p>no way in hell are you going to be able to teach yourself macroeconomics. western civ or a government class would probably be more realistic.</p>
<p>i could always steal the notes from class xxxx from my roommate, no?</p>
<p>not in macroeconomics</p>
<p>Introductory macroeconomics isn’t too hard to teach by yourself. IMO, it’s harder to memorize all the information for western civ, whereas macro only requires some common sense, and knowing about 30 words.</p>
<p>I self taught myself multi variable calculus over the summer. I didn’t take it during the fall but the winter following it. I earned a easy A. </p>
<p>Seriously, the harder the subject, the smarter it is to do some pre-studying for it. Forget about the easy subjects. Study Micro.</p>
<p>are there any other classes you think i could easily teach myself (sorry if this sounds pretentious, but I really dont want to waste my time (and $$$$) in a simple tic-tac course.)</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>Well you can always study history, astronomy/biology for non-scientists or something else thats memorization intensive but requiring no critical thinking. But that could be done during school with minimal effort(i.e night before midterm). The way I see it, you’re going to have to pay for the courses anyway. So why waste time? Especially if you can get an A the first time around.</p>
<p>bump bump bump bump bump bump bump bump bump</p>
<p>a lot of college classes are just glorified self-study anyway. you won’t get much more out of a class than you would out of a textbook. even for hard classes.</p>
<p>Does your college just give you credit for testing out of a course? At mine that’s not even at option…</p>
<p>Most colleges will give you credit for CLEP exams, which are essentially extended and super thorough finals, but you don’t get a grade.</p>
<p>And yes, many have done it… Supposedly the Intro to Lit class is the easiest CLEP in terms of length of time necessary to prepare for it.</p>
<p>My university requires 2 years of a foreign language to get in, and another year of one that you didn’t study in high school to graduate.</p>
<p>I want to study german in college. It’s more fascinating than spanish was. I plan on studying it on my own over the summer so that i am a bit more familiarized!</p>
<p>wait…if we’re talking like AP Macroeconomics…easy peasy…otherwise..i have no idea</p>
<p>i.e. what classes do you think were a waste of your time?(pure reading & memorization type)</p>
<p>history classes. the teacher pretty much summarized what was in the textbook during lecture. but i guess it’s good for people to hear somebody else say it outloud, though i don’t find it completely necessary.</p>
<p>at least at my school, you couldn’t teach yourself history or econ out of a book. The classes are verrry intensive, often seminar-style with many required papers/problem sets and a lot of discussion. Textbooks are only half the story, and for microeconomics they tend to suck.</p>