<p>A couple people at Barnard have mentioned l, or limited courses as being an annoyance. Can someone explain this to me, and does anyone know what percentage of courses have particularly limited enrollment for barnard students?</p>
<p>thanks :)</p>
<p>The annoyance is that you can't merely sign up online, you have to wait IN line at a certain day and time in order to finalize the class enrollment. My daughter has not had a problem thus far getting into any "L" designated courses -- she did get temporarily locked out on one she took this semester because of her place in line (class full by the time she got to the head) -- but she emailed the prof. right away, and he replied back the same day and let her into the class.</p>
<p>I think a lot of times the L is there to keep class size under control -- for example all my daughter's Russian classes are designated L because they can only take 15 students in each section, but there really is no problem getting into a section.</p>
<p>How are the Russian courses? I am really interested in taking Russian, but it's held EVERY DAY of the week! Does the scheduling get any better as one moves up a level?</p>
<p>Not until 3rd year, unless you take an evening class. I think the reason is that they really want you practicing listening & speaking Russian every day. My d. told me she is thinking seriously of minoring in Russian, so I assume she's happy with the classes.</p>
<p>i noticed they're are night classes for italian, marked with a W instead of a V or BC.
What does this mean?
Also, are night classes popular? are they just as good as day classes?</p>
<p>Not sure what you mean by "popular", but I would assume they are "just as good as day classes". I do know that my daughter has taken some classes at night....not her preference (she is a morning person and also has night rehearsals at times), but the class itself was fine.</p>
<p>BC Barnard College
C Columbia College
F School of General Studies
G Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
H Columbia University in Paris
R School of the Arts
S Summer Session
V Joint undergraduate course (Barnard with Columbia College and/or the School of General Studies)
W Other inter-faculty course</p>
<p>The letters before the course - V, W, etc. - aren't really significant in terms of signing up for the course or getting credit for it, so you don't really need to worry about it. That is, when you go to sign up for a course, you all you need to know is whether it is appropriate to your level (obviously important for a foreign language) and fits with your schedule.</p>
<p>My daughter took an evening course her first semester -- the only problem is that it cut a little into social time, plus because she took the evening class on the same day she had a late afternoon dance class, it was hard for her to get dinner (there really wasn't time between the classes to sit down for a meal, and when the evening class let out the dining halls were closed).</p>
<p>As far as evening courses in general, I took two at my local community college. If you pick a one-night evening course on a day when nothing is happening (i.e. Monday, for me right now), it's really nice, but they can get a little tiring. I definitely prefer day, but in terms of fitting things into a schedule (work, etc.), night classes might be the way to go.</p>