<p>My daughter is a full time nursing student, and is planning on taking one class online during the summer, so her schedule is less difficult during the school year. </p>
<p>My question is: what types of college subjects work best as online classes?</p>
<p>I'm assuming that hard science classes would not work well online. I'm guessing writing classes would be better in a classroom. I would think that most social science classes work well online - such as history, social problems, psychology. What has been your experience? </p>
<p>Any types of things to avoid with online classes? </p>
<p>(Ideally, she'd find a class that can completed over the length of the entire summer, because she will also be working full-time most of the summer.)</p>
<p>Humanities classes. Social sciences, etc. I took a bio class online once, didn’t really like it but that may be different for you.</p>
<p>I teach in the humanities and I don’t think that the online experience can sufficiently develop the important communication, argumentation, and human interaction skills that are nurtured in a proper in-person humanities seminar. I also think the online environment makes it more difficult to aggressively investigate and effectively develop the thoughts that come from the “aha!” moment where a student connects the course material to something completely unrelated, which often happens for good students in humanities courses.</p>
<p>I would say social science, English/writing, and math if you are confident that you’ll understand the material. </p>
<p>I’ve taken math, philosophy, geology and Spanish online. I preferred philosophy and math. Spanish was difficult to grasp without the additional YouTube videos I looked up and geology comes with a lab. The lab part is the hardest part. If it was just a science class in itself where you read and understand material, then get tested on it, it would be easy. But any science class with an online lab is just annoying. </p>
<p>Math was very easy for me, but I was taking college algebra which I already mastered in high school. I would imagine math would be better in a physical classroom if the student had difficulties with the level of math they were in. Philosophy was by far very easy since it was simple reading, understanding, and then testing. </p>
<p>I also took some online media design classes but this mostly worked with websites so having a physical class wouldn’t have been that great. My friend took gen ed English classes online and it seems very easy. Just assigned readings, some weekly responses, and a test on the material you read.</p>
<p>All online classes are self-directed so yeah. Overall if the class is reading and testing heavy, it would be easy for students who can study on their own time without lectures</p>