<p>I have to fulfill the COLA foreign language requirement for my major, and am curious as to how hard the classes are. The language I am most interested in is Portuguese; however, I'm most interested in a foreign language course that I can get a higher grade in. Does anyone have any insight on how Portuguese is at UT? Can anyone tell me which foreign language is easiest from experience? Many of the courses are 6 credits-- is 6 credits a good representation of the workload?</p>
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I have friends (with questionable work ethics) who have taken both Spanish and French, and have claimed that the courses are unnecessarily challenging and ended up finishing the sequences at comm colleges.</p>
<p>A 6 credit hours class covers material of two 5 credit classes, so you spend only 6 hours instead of 10 in class and have to study the same material and make the same amount of homework.
My DD is in a 6 credit hours class and she has 4 hours of daily homework/study time MINIMUM, and she also has to spend significant amount of time during weekends preparing assignments different from homework.</p>
<p>Your friends with “questionable work ethics” are an example of a trend you will see for the rest of your life. There are always people that are going to balk at tough work and take the easy way out. A common example of this is shown by people who take Calculus and Econ classes at Austin Community College vs. those that take them at UT. I’m not going to assume that ACC’s courses are not challenging, but I will assume that they are not equal in difficult nor content as UT’s.</p>
<p>You can take the difficult classes and be forced to learn a concept at an in-depth university level, or you can choose to take the easier path for the sake of GPA. Both have their advantages and disadvantages.</p>