<p>When I showed my family my schedule for the fall semester, my parents acted like I wasn't taking enough classes and that my schedule was too easy. I think it's a great schedule, though. What are your thoughts?</p>
<p>MONDAY-
9:00-9:50- Elementary Probability & Statistics
11:00-11:50- Mass Communication & Society</p>
<p>TUESDAY-
9:30-10:50- US History (Civil War-now)
11:00-12:20- Religion & American Society
2:00-3:20- College Writing I</p>
<p>Well if you’re a freshman, I don’t see what the problem is. I would rather my child take “easy” classes to adjust to college level work than thinking he’s big man on campus taking 2 or 3 upper level courses. </p>
<p>It’s 15 credit hours and yes, I am a freshman. I’m actually a strategic communications major (advertising/PR) and my advisor thought the schedule was fine.</p>
<p>I was going to take a science course but:
-the only available time was at night on Mondays and Wednesdays
-the lab conflicted with my history class
-my advisor recommended I not take math and science in the same semester since those were my toughest subjects in high school</p>
<p>It’s fine, especially for your first semester. It’s good to keep it lighter for your first semester because you have no idea of how you can handle the workload.</p>
<p>It looks about average to me for a first-semester freshman, so I don’t know what your parents are complaining about.</p>
<p>Do they understand how college schedules work, that you only have class a few hours a day, as compared to high school? My parents didn’t understand that at first either when we started visiting colleges, but then they heard it from enough people. They learned that “well, that’s how college schedules are.”</p>
<p>Looks fine to me, from what I know. If nothing else, you spend one semester getting used to college course work, finding out how much you can actually handle (which is better than biting off more than you can chew), and building up some cushion into your gpa for when you get into your harder major requirements.</p>
<p>You’re a freshman and 15 credits is about right. You can go through college without ever taking an 18 credit course load if you don’t change your major, don’t minor, and don’t double major.</p>
<p>It’s about what I took my first semester. College Writing classes can end up being a lot of work depending on your professor, so I’d advise having a class like that with a light courseload.</p>