<p>Gatorman…you definitely should take a lighter load your first semester and then build up second semester since you’ll still be adjusting and everything. However, if you’re pretty sure you are doing business then you will probably want to decide if you’re doing the field specialization or distribution option. That is basically how Kelley has you fulfill your general education requirements.
[General</a> Education Core: Curriculum: Academics: Undergraduate Program: Kelley School of Business: Indiana University Bloomington](<a href=“http://www.kelley.iu.edu/ugrad/academics/curriculum/general.cfm]General”>http://www.kelley.iu.edu/ugrad/academics/curriculum/general.cfm)</p>
<p>And then you can take it from there, after you decide which you want to do, you can take elective classes in those areas.</p>
<p>I signed up for S100 Intro to Sociology freshmen year (which btw is not bad at all if you put in the work) but found out that it pretty much is going to be a useless credit for me since I decided I am doing the Global Studies and Languages option.</p>
<p>So really there’s no specific “easy” electives you can take. However, if you want to ease up your courseload I suggest adding a 1 credit hour HPER class (basically any sport/athletics related class). Also BUS-X100 Intro to Business is a fairly simple class too so if you are not a direct admit then plan on taking that first semester.</p>
<p>I recommend taking an E-105, a topic in humanities, usually its very favorable GPA distribution. Topics vary each year… I took “African Arts and Magic”. Easy A.</p>
<p>Also take Multimedia in Computers, very easy class.</p>
<p>N&M:</p>
<p>Level 100 - no clue all ap
Level 200 - Take Scientific Reasoning. Very easy class if you pay attention.</p>
<p>Here are two easy distribution option grading classes. </p>
<p>A&H
FOLK F101 Introduction to Folklore</p>
<p>N&M
SOC-S 110 CHARTS, GRAPHS & TABLES (open to freshmen and sophomores only)</p>
<p>It can be good to take microeconomics and macroeconomics (finite and calculus, too) at community college during the summer. E201 and E202 at IU are massive classes (350 students) or classes of fifty or so that are taught by graduate students whose English may be suspect. The smaller classes go fast and can be gone before freshmen get a chance to register.<br>
[Schedule</a> of Classes Bulletin for the Bloomington campus for Fall 2008](<a href=“http://registrar.indiana.edu/scheduleoclasses/prl/soc4088fac.html#ECON]Schedule”>http://registrar.indiana.edu/scheduleoclasses/prl/soc4088fac.html#ECON)</p>
<p>BUS X100 and BUS G100 are easy classes but not required for direct admits to take.</p>
<p>My son took E-105 this past semester at dammitsam’s suggestion and got a B+ (would have been an A- if he did the extra credit available)–but then he was busy taking A202 and W231 and M120 (all hard courses), so one has to make an allowance somewhere.</p>
<p>Some of the health courses tend to have easier grading curves. Most of these won’t count towards the distribution requirements, though–so don’t load up on them.</p>
<p>Another area that students seem to like where the courses aren’t terribly difficult is the telecommunications field. All the faculty there are all really knowledgeable in their field, and as long as you don’t mind doing group projects on screenplay writing or theatre production or multimedia (TV and radio) production, then you can enjoy the class and get a better than average grade.</p>
<p>I was just checking the schedule for A100 for the Fall. It appears that a professor, Vivian Winston, is slated to teach 2nd eight weeks. Anyone know anything about her. I find her name on some unrelated IU material. Is she married to W. Winston?</p>
<p>A quick Google and KSB search gives this info:</p>
<p>Vivian Winston is a CPA with Tiwari, Winston and Associates. She’s KSB faculty but not listed by an academic title like Professor. She’s on the supervisory committee of the IU Credit Union. She and Wayne Winston, a KSB Professor have donated as a couple to a number of education fundraisers and charities in Indiana.</p>
<p>Should be a good alternative to Tiller. I’d take a chance on her class if I wasn’t done.</p>
<p>For the easy electives, just take communications classes. In the four I took, I got A’s in all of them. CMCL-C 121, CMCL-C 122, CMCL-C 223, BUS-X 204 are all simple if you put some effort in them. </p>
<p>I would strongly suggest if you are a Business major and doing the distribution requirement to specialize in S+H. Many easy departments in there (Psychology, Sociology, Criminal Justice, and Political Science.)</p>
<p>For A+H, go after the music classes. There’s a Beatles class that is awesome. Same with Intro to Rock and Roll Music. These count for A+H. Intro to Philosophy was easy but just not for me. I’ve heard OK things about Anthropology too.</p>
<p>Also, GEOL-G 103 is a very easy A for a N+M class. Same with PSY-P 101, which counts for N+M and not S+H like other Psychology classes.</p>
<p>I just checked the schedule and there appear to be lots of openings in both classes, especially Winston’s. Love to know if anyone has any inside info about the change 2nd half of first semester and what it might mean. We’ve been watching because it’s likely my S will need to try A100 again in the Fall (He’s taking 201 at a cc this summer but didn’t take the preliminary class for it, it’s only eight weeks but 4 days a week and he’s struggling). Has anyone taken 201 as an online course. In Michigan, it is offered by some community colleges online with apparent transfer credit acceptance at IUB.
Also, do you think that ALEKS user’s book and access code could be used for some prep with a tutor this summer or is it a course supplement?</p>
<p>I have had no problems transferring in credit from Michigan CC’s in online classes, but then again my transcript didn’t note that it was an online course.</p>
<p>jcarol,
you have to be careful about taking online courses to meet IU business requirements. To quote from the IU Kelley bulletin:</p>
<p>“Credit for Independent Study by Correspondence/Distance Education
The Kelley School faculty and staff strongly advise students to complete all their course work in the classroom. The quality of courses offered by correspondence or distance education (online courses) varies a great deal, and there are numerous problems, notably a very low completion rate and high rates of graduation delays. The school will accept two courses (for a total of 6 credits) by correspondence study or distance education to count toward degree requirements. However, because of the basic importance in the degree program, business courses may not be taken by correspondence study or distance education to satisfy admission or degree requirements or as business electives. In addition, the following non-business courses (or their equivalents) may not be taken by correspondence study or distance education for admission or degree purposes: MATH-M 118, M 119; ECON-E 201, E 202, E 370; CMCL-C 121. Note: All correspondence/distance education courses taken in the final semester to fulfill degree requirements must be completed three weeks prior to the end of a regular semester.”</p>
<p>As you can see by the line “However, because of the basic importance of the degree program, business courses may not be taken by correspondence study or distance education to satisfy admission or degree requirement or as business electives”, this rules out taking A100, A201, or A202 in this manner.</p>
<p>P.S. My son retook Financial Accounting online at a local community college and got an “A” this past semester (just to improve his knowledge of the subject–and for transfer purposes)–but only after having taken it in the classroom at the University of Virginia last summer and getting a “C” in the course (thus completing the Indiana requirement). Strangely enough, both the highly ranked Univ of Virginia and the local community college used the same book and the same “Homework Manager” system for teaching the subject. It did cost about $4,000 extra to take it at UVA, though.</p>
<p>The thing is, I don’t think that’s the case. The “online” course requirement is seemingly only through courses that you take online at IU. </p>
<p>All credit that you transfer in goes to the office of admissions, and they post it. Kelley has no correspondence.</p>
<p>Calcruzer, I think it’s funny you note about the price difference. There really is no difference in quality between community colleges and national universities in lower level classes. It’s the same material wherever you take it. I would even argue that the CC does it better because they have smaller classes and more personalized attention. This is why I advocate anyone to take as many courses AWAY from IU as they can, and transfer them in.</p>
<p>jcarol - I didn’t take A201 online, I took it in-person at a CC and transferred it in. I have taken other courses online and transfer them in during the Fall, Spring, and Summer sessions.</p>
<p>i took it the first time and got a 58% on the first exam. i stayed up for 2 days before the exam and studied from dusk till dawn at the wells library. point being cramming doesn’t work for this class. i withdrew and took it a second time and got perfect scores on both exams. do the readings, take notes and keep reading till you fully comprehend it. do the balance sheet problems over and over again. once you understand how everything works. move to the practice tests. keep doing them over and over again. anyone you ask on campus will say keep doing the practice tests till you pick up on his tricks. </p>
<p>for example: how much cash was paid for depreciation?
answer: you don’t pay cash on depreciation.</p>
<p>i’m going to be a TA for that class next semester so if you have any questions PM me. I’ll be more than happy to help you.</p>
<p>just to add some credibility to my statement. i tutored my whole floor and we all got A’s on the exam.</p>
<p>I haven’t read all the posts in this thread, but adding on to the tips that you posted in the beginning.
ATTEND THE REVIEW SESSION before the test
that’s very important. The Student teacher actually teaches it many times simpler than the teacher himself. She goes over 4 of the practice tests problem for problem. After attending the review session, you should be much better prepared.</p>
<p>My son is taking A100 at IUPUI starting at the end of June. I checked the class roster and two thirds of the students have IU-Bloomington e-mail addresses, so I’m guessing that they are mostly sophomores who live in the Indianapolis area and who did not get through Tiller’s classes as freshmen. It should be an interesting semester.</p>
<p>I just took the final for A100 SS1 today. Overall I felt that both of the tests actually reflected the concepts we learned in class this semester (unlike Tiller’s class), though we did cover a few topics that Tiller does NOT cover in his regular semester sessions. The professor I took the class with (Marcia Davault) was an excellent instructor and very fair when it comes to grading exams. On the midterm I got a perfect score after a small curve was applied and I’m expecting similar results on the final.</p>
<p>Despite my approval of the A100 given this summer, I think that many students still felt that the class was unreasonably difficult. The concepts seemed to be presented in a very comprehensive and understandable manner but A100 is a class where you need to continually test your understanding of the concepts you learn about in class. From my observation the people who are taking the course for the second time have a much higher level of success than those who take it for the first time - this is quite true in my case.</p>
<p>As far as the two exams are concerned, I would guess that most people finish with about 5 minutes to spare (or no time left at all) - in stark contrast with Tiller’s tests. I left 15 minutes before the end of the testing period on both tests and about 90% of the students still remained in the room on both occasions. The tests this semester were much more hands-on than conceptual (one of the things I liked about the class this time around) but required one to know more accounting concepts.</p>
<p>In summary, A100 will be a difficult course no matter who you take it with but with enough self-study and tutoring (sometimes equally important as studying) most able-minded students will succeed in this class.</p>
<p>Here are the chapter subjects
24 pp. 1. The Accounting Equation
22 pp. 2. Analyzing Business Transactions
17 pp. 3. Transaction Analysis: Debit and Credit Rules
23 pp. 4. Recording Transactions in the General Journal and Posting to the General Ledger
13 pp. 5. Accural Basis and Cash Basis Methods of Accounting
30 pp. 6. Preparing Adjusting Entries
31 pp. 7. Preparation of a Worksheet and Completion of the Accounting Data Processing Cycle — Service Firm</p>
<p>It might be helpful to look this book over before taking A100 at IU.</p>