<p>Hey all, i'll be a new transfer student this spring. Just wanted to know is the work load pretty heavy at USC? I previously went to the University of Houston where I had a 4.0 GPA. I'm a business major and will be taking business classes and was wondering how much a typical work load consists of? Is it basically tests and quizzes or more? Anyone know "easy" teachers for the business pre-reqs?</p>
<p>Also, does anyone know any easy classes that you can take for your GE's? (Talking about the two GE's that you have to take at USC.)</p>
<p>you better brace yourself. this aint your daddy's SC anymore. prepare to really be pushed in ALL your classes, the workload gets kicked up a notch every semester in the marshall school. sometimes its all a little redundant, but you eventually get use to it and come out a better person.</p>
<p>I have no clue about anything at the business school, since I'm not in it, but I do know about lec/disc. The lec is the main section taught by the professor and disc is usually taught by TA's and such. You probably have to take one of each for each class.</p>
<p>I don't know how hard grading is in the business school, but I do know it's curved. My personal guess is that it can't be too bad since it's better than engineering, which isn't too bad in itself, except you probably don't want to be married to that 4.0 GPA :)</p>
<p>I find the workload to be incredibly light in Marshall. I went to a high school and spent most of my time doing stupid busy work, there is no more dumb busy work and you just have to understand what is presented, and nothing is really rocket science, except for maybe 310. I'd say I spend 30 minutes a week studying for each business class I've been in and spend about 4-6 hours studying for the midterm and final. None of the classes are ridiculous in workload that I've taken.</p>
<p>Same here. I'm wondering that as well. I will be attending USC this spring, so this "curve" system is new to me. If they do get rid of the "curve", that's supposed to help, right? Because for example with the curve, if everyone made 100's or A's on their exams, then no one would get an A...</p>
<p>Marshall (was) the only school to have a curve. I found that it was very easy to get a grade in the B range, but difficult to get an A and difficult to get a C. The 3.0 average was higher than many of the other schools such as Computer Science, Architecture, Engineering, etc, so I didn't find it a positive or a negative.</p>
<p>Ditto. Being in both Viterbi AND Marshall, I can personally testify to the fact that the Marshall "curve", well, isn't. I always scoff when I hear of 3.0 being a curve. Last time I checked, a C - evaluating to a 2.0 - was average. My CS prof had no problem handing those out the previous semester.</p>