<p>Are you taking EWRT 1A Composition and Reading? That’s a 5 unit writing class, so there’s going to be a lot of work. If the whole semester is scheduled like that, then it looks like the instructor might be emphasizing literature at the expense of writing skills.</p>
<p>Now maybe there’s more to the story than I realize, but I’ve done enough research on your school for one day.</p>
<p>@WasatchWriter thanks for the help, and yes, im taking EWRT 1A, and there are also 5 essays so i think there is quite a bit of writing. </p>
<p>5 essays isn’t that much actually but based on your syllabus you also have in-class tests andI would assume perhaps a presentation so that’s pretty standard, it just feels rushed due to the quarter system. At some universities you’d be likely to have a 10 or 20-page paper too (length varying depending on the college’s rigor).</p>
<p>Yes, quarter course = semester course compressed to fit into 10 or 12 weeks.</p>
<p>It sounds like you found you’d rather have classes on the semester system (or perhaps the one-course-at-a-time model) rather than quarters, which will be useful to you when you selected colleges.</p>
<p>DeAnza is a good community college, meaning it’s very close to what a UC would be like.
And no, it’s not overly rigorous for a good college. People have said this several times already. 
It’s on the rigorous side for a “regular” CC or a directional (like a midtier CSU), certainly, but you’re
not aiming for CSU Northridge as far as we can tell :)</p>