<p>Are the TIDES courses pass/fail or graded? Are they offered during Fall and Spring terms, or just during the Fall? Would it be unusual for a student to take more than one?</p>
<p>Almost all of them are in the Fall. With a maximum of 15 per course and 1500 or so freshman, in the Fall there must be over 100 offerings. There are a few stragglers in the Spring (5 offerings in the current semester), I guess for transfer students or other miscellaneous reasons. But even so they are less than half full. 75 maximum seats and 41 still available. Interestingly, Dean MacLaren is doing a TIDE on leadership, politics, power and change that is almost full, and there is one about Food and Drink in NOLA that is similarly attended. The other 3 are fairly sparse, one of them being the running TIDE. I suspect that one is nearly full in the Fall.</p>
<p>Anyway, I am not sure you are even allowed to take more than one TIDE course, and it would be unusual in any case. I know, they sound so great! A lot of students say the same thing, that they would like to take more than one. They are graded, but they are only one credit and as long as you attend regularly, you will get an A. They aren’t really intended to be “academic” for the most part, although some are clearly more so than others. They are for acclimation, fun, discussion…very relaxed. For the ones later in the day or early evening, pizza is quite common.</p>
<p>FC How does one register for the TIDES classes? I assumed it was done during orientation. We’ve committed and paid the deposit and made the dorm request but haven’t heard about signing up for TIDES.</p>
<p>Yes, it is done when you register for all your other courses. It is just another required course as far as registration goes, so no worries. Besides the unique aspects of the course that I mentioned above, this is one area where getting first choice is more difficult. They won’t go over the 15 max per section, so not everyone can get the one they want. But there are tons of fun, good choices.</p>
<p>I’d just like to add that if you have indicated that the Business School is your intended area of study, then you will need to sign up for Business Tides which is required for all B-school students. Business Tides is actually a two semester Tides class, so typically you are automatically registered for the same section for second semester. </p>
<p>If a student doesn’t decide on Business until later, there is a special section of Business Tides that can be taken later over one semester instead of two from what I understand.</p>
<p>There is also a service component to the Tides classes which I think brings the credit hours up to 1.5 hours (.5 for the service component) There is a separate course number for registration purposes on the service component.</p>
<p>Thanks, kk.</p>
<p>What is the time zone for New Orleans, and do they observe daylight savings?</p>
<p>Central time zone and yes, we observe Daylight Savings - I wasn’t aware that it was an option! It is currently 8:23pm!</p>
<p>Arizona and I think Hawaii are the only two states remaining that don’t do DST. Indiana started doing it a few years ago.</p>
<p>The 2013 TIDES courses are on the website now, if you haven’t seen them yet.
[TIDES:</a> Tulane InterDisciplinary Experience Seminars](<a href=“http://tides.tulane.edu/coursedescriptions.html]TIDES:”>http://tides.tulane.edu/coursedescriptions.html)</p>