Important Questions (admitted)

I have heard some rumors, so if anyone can answer these questions it would be much appreciated.

  1. Is it true that even if you put down the housing deposit you are not guaranteed freshman dorm housing?
  2. Is it true you have to take a lot of online classes? - expand on this please

Thank You :slight_smile:

  1. UF has plenty of freshman housing available, just make sure to get your housing deposit in before the deadline.
  2. The number of online classes will vary by major. For both of my engineering kids, they had to take Professional Communications for Engineers", which is an online class. My daughter also had to take an economics class, which was online. That's about it.

However, other majors will find some popular lower level classes are online, I believe business majors have a bit more than others. My daughter’s roommate was in the college of agricultural and life sciences (CALS) and she went out of her way to select online classes, and had at least 2 or 3 in each of her first 2 or 3 semesters at UF.

Also, many classes will give you the option of enrolling in a standard class or an online section.

A lot of classes are also recorded, and made available online to be viewed. Engineering Mechanics-Statics is one such class, and my daughter stopped going to the live class and would review the lecture online. The nice thing about watching it online, is that you can pause or replay any part of the lecture.

In fact, UF has been rolling out “Flipped Classrooms”. Personally, I think this is a great approach for those large lecture courses.

http://citt.ufl.edu/online-teaching-resources/activelearning/flipped-classroom/

My son is taking 6 classes this semester. Two are online.

my son is a freshman civil engineering major and he hasn’t taken any online classes, although he probably could have taken some if wanted to. For example, Calc 2 and 3, Professional Communication for Engineers, and The Good Life have online sections, but he registered only for the traditional campus class sections.

My nephew went to UCF and he had several classes “online”. I think it is just common.

Dont discount online classes right.Im taking art appreciation online and id rather go to fsu than have to take that class in person and actually listen to lecture.

^^^ that’s just sad. Why are you taking the class at all? College is about educating the whole self and expanding your horizons. No you won’t love every class but why not take something different that satisfies a requirement AND entices you. just going through the motions is a waste of time and money.

^^^If it’s a first period class (7:25 am), I would be watching the lectures online too… :stuck_out_tongue:

@rickle1 Trust me I dont want to waste 3 hours of my week listening to the same monotonous speaker talk about 25 random artifacts that I don’t need to know. We also have discussion posts that talk about diversity and art and I acutally try on those but there are only five options for the state core humanities so there wasn’t one that “enticed” me. The class is all online anyway. they got rid of the in-person section.

^sorry if that came off as snarky I have an exam tonight that I should be studying for.

^ I understand your dilemma. I just don’t like the whole online class thing. I know others think it’s great.

Unrelated, it’s a shame there aren’t more interesting humanities classes to choose from but I guess interesting is quite subjective. I think the Brits have it right. Take care of gen ed / humanities in high school (but really do it well) and leave University for deep major exploration (they go three yrs but it’s primarily tied to their major). They figure you know what you want to pursue after strong liberal arts in high school.

Overall i don’t think there are a lot of gen eds. Many freshmen complete most of them in high school. Then of course there’s Good Life.

I mean there are actually a wide array of classes that count as humanities gen eds, it just sucks we have to take a state core one. Since im from out of state, id dint have the opportunity to do one in high school or i definitely would have.