<p>When i took into Philosophy my freshman year, it was alot of work. We had a 20 page paper(non double spaced) due every week, and 3 tests that were about 30 or so pages each. and I havent even mentioned the reading yet. It was pretty intense, I ended up with a c- and the highest grade was a B-. The teacher though was the absolute best teacher I have ever had. She could recite a ton of philosophical woks, word for word. Very smart. She at the end said she taught the class like the same class she would teach graduate or phd students. so i felt pretty good about that.</p>
<p>what was her name?</p>
<p>20 pages is pretty average for a course. Most of my classes had a few 10-15 page papers through the course then a 20 page term paper. If that's your only paper, then that's not that bad.</p>
<p>Spanish 2 level I consider a high school course. :P But then again, I tested into 6th semester college Spanish (and I couldn't test any higher.. it was pretty easy). </p>
<p>What is the philosophy course? No course is "freshman" or "sophomore" except for courses that are prereqs for majors. At least not at my school... With philosophy, it matters entirely on your professor and your comfort level with the area. I took an aesthetics course with a very good professor and spent the whole time watching good 40s-60s films and had to write 3 papers on various issues raised in class (analyzing the metaphysical reality of Blow Up and how that relates to photography, what is art?, and analyzing our choice of photographs in relation to a list of quotes we were given). I found it to be very easy as I think like that about everything and the topics are part of my interior monologue. I can see how others would easily struggle with such a way of thinking.</p>
<p>I think music theory would be the hardest. That was a required part of my high school band a few times a week and it kicked my ass.</p>
<p>I suppose. i will just have to budget my time a lot better than in h.s. haha</p>
<p>Don't sweat it too much, the classes are 100/200 level courses, you'll be fine.</p>
<p>check out rateyourprofessor to see what people think of the choices you have for professors. It might help.</p>
<p>I think it'll be very time-consuming. I'm personally going to try out an insane schedule myself. 5 courses + 2 labs for credit, 3 courses not for credit (just out of interest), and volunteering as a research assistant for a prof. I'll also be on the lookout for clubs to join now that I'm kind of settled in.</p>
<p>Oh Dr. Ellen Katz.</p>
<p>see, this is why kids at Canadian Unis end up with lower GPAs on average.</p>
<p>As a u1 student, my schedule was like</p>
<p>Honours intermediate microeconomics
Honours intro to econometrics
Calc 2
intro. Linear Algerba
Money and Banking</p>
<p>This is easy compared to what a kid studying physics or engineering had to go through. How come we don't get classes like jerking off to liberal b.s., making friends, role playing and magic, whatever else they offer at liberal arts schools in the states these days.</p>
<p>Because kids like us don't want to waste our time on BS courses and we want to "challenge" ourselves...</p>
<p>Oh, I recognize that there are plenty of kids in the states who take challenging classes. It just seems like so many liberal arts schools offer courses in nonsense that inflate GPAs and reduce the overall global competitiveness of the U.S. as far as intellectual capital is concerned. The most common majors in the U.S. are business administration and communications. Both are utter junk and a waste of resources. We need people who can design and build things, develop new medicine, write well, think critically, etc. Not more people who can B.S. there way into do nothing lower middle management positions.</p>
<p>For the record, I don't think music is a waste of time at all. Maybe cuz I play jazz, but music actually helps people on a daily basis, and is critical for cultural identity</p>
<p>Jeremy -- I would not assume that the applied music classes are not going to require work. You should expect to practice at least 30 minutes a day for your voice lesson, and most college level voice lessons require you to research the song, composer, etc... translate from the foreign language into english... In 200 level voice lessons you can expect to learn 5 - 10 songs this semester for your repertory, and to go through a jury at the end of the semester in order to be able to advance to the next level.</p>
<p>Choral ensemble will also require some work outside of scheduled rehearsals. </p>
<p>18 credits in your first semester at college is a bit heavy, but your advisor should have worked with you to put together your schedule. What does )s)he think of your course load?</p>
<p>PS.... Tulane is a major university :)</p>
<p>Haha idk why they said tulane is cheezy. i don't. ANYWAYS, to katMT, i don't think tulane has juries. that's the weird thing. it's not the same as regular music programs like at miami where they have juries (i know most do, but i don't think tulane does.) My advisor <em>advised</em> me to take 18 credits to 19 credits so that if there is one class that stands out to me, either b/c a prof has a weird accent that i don't get or that the work in general is just too intense for the first semester, that i can dropa nd still have a good backup level.</p>
<p>Doesn't look bad to me...but just in reply to your post saying that the music classes other than theory won't require much work, you may be underestimating the time they may take up. </p>
<p>I was in my university's wind ensemble and took a private lessons course...yeah...I went into the lessons thinking it'd be a piece of cake, I wouldn't have to do much work, and I'd mainly just have extra help learning the solos I had to cover when the first chair clarinet player was gone (family emergency)...and I had a very rude awakening on that one. It ended up taking up a ton of time I didn't really have to spare and I barely managed an A in there. </p>
<p>Same thing for the Seminar class. Those are meant to be easy As (judging on my own experience and those of friends at other schools), but I know a lot of people that blew them off and got Bs or lower...and that's just a dumb way to start off.</p>
<p>thank you all for your advice so far!</p>
<p>a cheesy school would be like ITT technical institute. The one that is always on TV</p>
<p>18-19 credits is NOTHING for music majors. most of them take that much every semester.</p>
<p>and a cheesy user name would be something like goodusername...
Tulane is an awesome school and I'm sure you'll be fine with that course load</p>