Title basically says it all. I’ve been hearing different things about the rigor from different people. I kind of wanted to just have someone set it straight for me. I’ve heard it can be 2-3 hours of work per hour in the class. How accurate is that? And also, I’m particularly curious about the humanities and social science class rigor and hw. What can someone reasonably expect to have to do on the average night? 20-30 pages of reading and 1-2 page responses? Am I in the ballpark?
Also, would anyone have any class recommendations for someone who is going to need to complete science requirements, but absolutely dislikes science classes and labs in particular?
It can range from none to working for 8 hours in the reg consecutively depending on what classes you’re taking, how fast you work, what time of the quarter it is, and how much you’ve procrastinated.
A friend of mine is an econ major, and he told me has relatively little work, but he said you “need to know which classes to take”. So I’m guessing he takes the easiest classes to fulfill his requirements, and researches which is the best (easiest) professor to have.
Hahaha, I’m a humanities and social sciences kind of person, and I enjoy reading, so I’m okay with more of that reading. It’s the sciencey reading I’m more worried about.
A few weeks ago, my wife and kids and I were all together, and my wife and I made some kind of reference to the idea that the Chicago Core must have taught them how to figure out what from a long reading assignment you really needed to read, and what you could get by with skimming. Both reacted with immediate, unfeigned horror at the idea that they wouldn’t have done all of the required reading. I doubt that attitude was absolutely universal at Chicago, but it was pretty clear that they thought it was mainstream – as @HydeSnark indicates, at the very least a basic courtesy you owe your classmates and teachers.
As someone who definitely did not do all of the reading (maybe half of it?), you have to do some of it, and doing all of the reading would probably have helped. But I am the WORST with procrastinating and reading Fanon is kind of a pain. I say this as I should be writing both my Hum and Sosc essays.
