I’m a junior transfer to CC and I’m planning to graduate in three semesters, taking roughly 20 points each semester. I’m an international transfer and I’m used to crazy schedule like this so I think I’ll be able to manage it.
The problem though is that I would have to take Lit Hum and Contemp Civ at the same time (during my junior year). Is this doable? I’m mostly worried about the readings. Would it be too much to handle? And since I’m a premed student I can’t let my grades suffer either.
Anyone has done this? Let me know what you think!
Of course, you would need to check with your Academic advisor whether it is a good idea to take Lit Hum and Contemporary Civ simultaneously. Then you would likely need to get approval from the Core Curriculum Office to take both simultaneously.
As things stand now, All Incoming CC students are expected to take Lit Hum during your 1st Year. And then they would take Contemporary Civ during 2nd, 3rd, or 4th Year. Most people take it 2nd Year. This applies to transfer students also. So there are probably No current CC students who would have taken both simultaneously, and could give us a firsthand account of this experience. Maybe there’s a Transfer student like yourself who got special approval for this, since all things are possible under the sun, if one tries hard enough.
Now, as to whether this is a good idea or not? At one time, Incoming CC students could sign up for either Lit Hum or Contemporary Civ as they wished their 1st year. (And then they would take the other one the 2nd year.) The split was reasonably close, although I would say more preferred to take Contemporary Civ their first year. I’m not sure why, since I think the current structure is better all around, with Lit Hum being the default 1st year course. (For the students, the Lit Hum is a more familiar extension of what they have been doing their senior AP English. For the school, it gives them more certain enrollment numbers to plan for their sections.)
But at that time, one could take both simultaneously if one really desired. But very few if any did this, since it would be difficult. That's a lot of reading. And these are small seminar classes that meet more frequently than lecture classes, and classroom participation in the discussion is important.
Assuming that one were allowed to take both simultaneously as in the remote past, could one physically do both classes? Of course you could – especially if the grades are not overly important to you. But if you actually cared about the grades? Probably very difficult then.
Very difficult. They’re both very time consuming classes.