<p>Has anyone had experiences with online summer college courses? I'm already enrolled in college, 2nd semester freshman. I'm planning on taking 1 online course to cut back demands during semesters and to save about $400+ each semester. The courses will transfer.</p>
<p>Just trying to get some info and advice from anyone that has taken the courses before, IE, the pace, books?, and has anyone held a job alongside taking it during the summer?</p>
<p>Any advice or info would be great.</p>
<p>Well, last summer I took an online course (Principles of Macroeconomics) from Foothill College, a public California CC. It was only about six or seven weeks long. I wouldn’t say it was hard, but I’d taken AP Macroeconomics the year before, so I was pretty familiar with the material. Since I was only taking one class, it wasn’t an overwhelming amount of work, but I did have to keep pretty close tabs on deadlines, since there is really no wiggle room for making up those things a lot of the time. Since I had a lot of time to find a good deal on getting a book, I just decided to rent it from Chegg, which turned out to be a good decision.</p>
<p>I was also a temp over the summer, but since I was a receptionist, I really spent a lot of the day just reading the textbook. That reminds me - usually tests were only open for two or three hours in my class, so I had to make sure I was home for them… my teacher usually made the tests from 6 to 9 PM, for what it’s worth.</p>
<p>Though the grade I got in the class didn’t transfer into my UCSB GPA, it was still a great deal, and I even used it for fulfilling a lower-division requirement for the economics major here. It was about $120 for the class, $15 for the book, and $35 for Aplia (the online test-taking/homework interface).</p>
<p>Great! Thanks for the info. Basically doing the same thing, getting my GenEd accounting requirements out of the way.</p>
<p>I’ve done a lot of online classes, both GenEds and upper division courses (business major) and highly recommend it. It really depends on the class, the school, and the teacher on how difficult and time consuming the class will be. In my experience, a lot of people work and still do well in online classes. As long as you keep up with the work, you’ll be fine. Summer poses additional challenges due to the nicer weather and friends out of school, but I’ve managed. One caveat of online classes is that you may enjoy them so much that you end up taking a lot of classes online. I think I’m on my 8th fully online class and try to take one each semester to make room in my schedule to take classes only offered on a limited basis.</p>
<p>I actually thought it about it earlier about taking an online course alongside the regular courses during semester as well. My advisor and I did a 4 yr plan to get my degree done and after this spring semester, I would be taking 5 courses each semester, 15-16 credit to get it done. I’m sure I can handle it but prefer four courses like this semester. I have time for extracurriculars and then some. Additionally, I’ll be an RA next year and don’t want to over do it especially first semester of RA’ing’. </p>
<p>So it would basically be the 12 credits for fulltime status and 1 online course. This definitely got me planning ahead.</p>
<p>Thanks again!</p>