<p>I'm doing early registration for the Spring 2010 and I'm planning on taking the maximum allowable # of credits (21) at the school.</p>
<p>I've got it planned out so that I take these courses:
FR101- Elementary French
BS100- Human Biology
(2 classes not sure which one to take) SO202/SO210- Cultural Anthropology/Deviance & Social Control
EN208 Intro to Film Appreciation</p>
<p>But I also planned on taking these courses:
EN210 Development of the American Novel
EN216 World Literature II
EN290 Topics in Literature</p>
<p>The problem is, that those 3 courses are only offered online. Not only am I unfamiliar with how online classes work, I am uncomfortable taking them online because I have my doubts about how they would look on my transcript to the schools I've applied to and I'd rather take them in a classroom environment where I know what to expect from the professor on exams. </p>
<p>Anyway, I need to take them and do well in them because its the only way I'll be able to make a strong case for myself to be admitted into the schools I really want to go to (Penn, Northwestern, Duke, Cornell)</p>
<p>If you are referring to the latter three courses being only taught online:</p>
<p>Online English courses tend to involve lots of reading, posting discussion questions online and responding to those discussion posts from your classmates, and writing papers. You just need to be dedicated enough to sit down and do the reading and writing at home. Are you comfortable reading/writing papers at home and logging into an online course website and posting to a message board very similar to CC?</p>
<p>Some schools don’t put <em>online</em> next to the course on your transcript so I’d suggest calling into the school and asking them about this.</p>
<p>You should also consider contacting the professors of those courses and asking what is involved in taking the class online. I’m sure they’d be willing to help you out.</p>
<p>To transfer into selective schools like those, you need a very high GPA. Don’t take such a heavy course load, online or not, if it’s going to lower your GPA.</p>
<p>My school doesn’t annotate courses as “online” on your transcript as long as they are regular semester-based courses. Check with your school and see how they would list the classes in question.</p>