I won't start work for another 3 weeks... and my studies won't start till October.Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
What is a communications class?
I have always thought you communicate rather well! :D
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I won't start work for another 3 weeks... and my studies won't start till October.Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
What is a communications class?
I have always thought you communicate rather well! :D
Thank you:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
It's a public speaking class, I'm not to crazy about it but it should be useful.
I start back in three weeks and I don't want to wait that long!! I'm taking Agricultural Animal Physiology, Fundamentals of Nutrition, Genetics, Biophysics, and Calculus.
I haven't even started my vacation Welsh homework.......:eek:
Guess who starts college (hopefully) in october! :banana: i'm going back to do my degree, only this time, rather than continue with Archaeology, i'm doing a BA in Literature and the English Language. wish me luck!!
Yes indeed, the very best of luck, Niamh - and enjoy it, too.
I am going to take a storytelling course! :banana: I decided yesterday and am double checking details today, but I really want to do this, most public library librarian posts requier you to take part in story time and rhyme time and I really love storytelling!
:D
Good luck Niamh, and Nightshade that sounds like a ton of fun. :D
Good luck Naimh! :thumbs_upQuote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
I'm a little jealous. This sounds like a great class. My 10 year old really has a striking talent for storytelling. She always impresses me with her ability to pepper the story with clues that all come together in the end.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightshade
Today is my first day. My classes are beginning to show up on the internet and I get a little more nervous each time I check in. 21 hours this semester :eek: but, it's my last semester of classes.
Allllllll Riiiiiggghhhhtttt Niamh and Nightie!!!:banana:
Holy Crap MH!!! 21 hours?? That's a whole mess o' classes no? Somewhere it's says that I can only take 19 hrs per semester.Quote:
Originally Posted by motherhubbard
I'll begin my third year at the universty in a couple of weeks. I still don't know where exactly I should be and when. Everything's a mess, because my department (translation department of Helsinki university) moved to Helsinki from another town AND they changed the course requirements at the same time, as if everything wasn't complex enough already :p
Yay everyone!
Niamh, that's so exciting! Nightie, what an awesome class! Man, you guys get to take fun courses! Good luck to you all!
Whadya mean? you get to take Calc!!:banana:Quote:
Originally Posted by *Classic*Charm*
Calculus is my personal satan.Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
I'm taking 7 of those hours one place and 14 at another. The 7 should be easy.Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
I bet everyone is in the same boat. I'm sure it will work out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Annamariah
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Originally Posted by *Classic*Charm*
I need someone to yell at me so I rember to ring about the story telling class.!
But yay everyone. :banana:
Huh, is it just the females on the forum starting new classes?
Nightshade - have you made that phone call? No, don't say you'll do it later- do it now.(In her best Teacher's Voice. :D)
I don't start classes until the ninth, and my schedule is a beast - Italian, French Chinese, Chinese History, East Asian Critical Approaches, and English literature from 1500-1600 - quite messy, and like 20 hours of class each week :!@! Bit worried about the Chinese, but probably only 30-50 new characters a week, so it shouldn't be too bad.
I'm only taking 10 credits this semester: English comp, Fine Arts, and Hebrew.
What are normal numbers for weekly hours of class for everyone? Just because it seems that everyone finds close to 20 to be a lot...I have 20 hours of lecture this semester, plus lab time for four of my classes and that's a very light semester.
Wow ok, i guess we're wimps down here. Around 15 is about normal for me. You need special permission to take more than 18 credits at my school.Quote:
Originally Posted by *Classic*Charm*
12 is full time here and 18 is the max unless you have special permission. They only charge for the first 15 where I attend so I always take as many as they will allow. As long as I keep my GPA up they allow me to take as many as I want. I usually take between 18 and 21. I did 24 once, but it was hard on my kids.
wait... you guys only do between 12 and 20 hours a week in classes? did i get that right?
When i was in college classes started a 9am and finished at 5pm. If you were lucky you might get a couple of free hours during the day. Fridays we finished at one.
I think it is 40 here. My course was odd in that it was 20 hours contact time and 20 hours self study ecxpected. but ifyou dont have 15 hours contact time ou dont even qualify for a student rail card! :eek:
When I was at university, we were given around 18 hours a week. To be able to take more classes, one needed special permit, like some mentioned above, which meant that you were expected to have "proved" yourselves; i.e., a regular honour student etc. By the time I graduated I had about 25 extra credits but now looking back to it, I cannot help wondering what good that do for me as we were not allowed to take certain classes earlier so early graduation was out of question.
Less idle hours, more lectures to attend, more assignments and exams to prepare for. Bleh.
Niamh> I think college and university hours are different because at university they expect one to one contact-study hour if I remember correctly (similar to what Night mentioned).
At the moment, I am working 21 hours a week (14 teaching hours) and my advisor at university suggests I study about 6 hours a week... which leaves very little time for a social life. Hence, long live LitNet! :D
HEY! The Litnet IS a social life :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
I'm not sure if our systems are very similar or not...Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
I went to an IT so not really certain about the Big Uni's and Colleges, but most of my week were Lectures and tutorials. Any college work was mainly done outside of hours the same was as homework in school.
I did a small FETAC course about a year after i dropped out, and that required two full days (14 hours) in classes and two days doing research in the National Library and the National Archives (12 hours) for the Local history side of the course. so that was still 24 hours excluding projects that needed to be done for all other classes, and that was considered a part time course because we were only in classes two days a week.
I'm still going to be doing a 40 hour working week and studying on top of that. :sick: I'm glad classes are few and far between though!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Yes it is! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Nightshade
That sounds so crazy to me! When do you study and do homework and projects? I would say that I spend an average of 35 hours a week on homework. The hours I'm talking about are hours spent in the classroom. Three hours for English Comp each week for 16 weeks = 3 credit hours. 12 hours is considered full time. When I started I was told to expect to spend 3 hours out of class for every one hour in class. There have been several classes I didn't have to spend any time out of class studying for, but there have been some classes that have taken me 15+ hours a week. I find that my on-line courses take a lot more time and effort.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
I can't believe we've had this thread up for so long and this hasn't come up sooner.
Do you mean contact time =lectures and labs, self study= homework?Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightshade
Man, I didn't even include study time! I've been told by profs that I should be spending roughly 12 hours a week on each class, including lecture, labs, and homework/studying.
The normal course load is 5 classes, and one can do up to 6 with special permission. Hours per week varies depending on which classes you're taking as almost all classes have about three hours of lecture time per week, but they vary in the amount of scheduled/ non-scheduled lab and seminar time. So yes, I suppose about 15 hours per week of lecture, but most of my classes have lab work as well.
My semester is fairly light because one of my classes doesn't have any lab work, and two of them only have one hour of scheduled lab time per week, which is pretty unusual. Most of my classes typically have three hours of scheduled lab time per week.
I'm taking two classes this semseter, both are 3 credit hours which means I'm spending 6hours in class per week.
12 hours is normal, 18 is the maximum, I'm taking 15. So that's five 3-hour courses.
Those were my hours too, Niamh, and some extra-long days finished at six and we didn't finish early on Fridays. But that was way back when, in the dear dead days beyond recall known as the Sixties (of which it is said if you can remember them, you weren't there....)
In my first year my classes were broken up in to two semester
Semester 1
Physical Landscape
Computers(lectures and tutorials)
Irish Social History
Mentor
film Studies (lectures and Tutorials)
Theatre Studies( Lectures and Tutorials)
Communications
(seven classes three with tutorials)
Semester 2
Man Made Lanscape (archaeology)
Multimedia (lectures and Tutorials)
Irish Social History
Management of cultural enterprises
Film Studies (lectures and Tutorials)
Theatre Studies (Lectures and Tutorials)
(six classes three with tutorials)
I think both Film and Theatre Studies had five or six hours of classes and tutorials each, Computerss1/multimedia S2 had four and everything else had three... about 26/27 hours of classes a week. free time between classes and after classes was used to do projects and study... well in theory.... it was mainly used to go to the pub. :p
In comprehensive school we spent more hours at school per week when we got older. In elementary school (grades 1-6) there were first about 20 hours of school per week, later about 25. In grades 7-9 we had five periods each year, and each period had a different schedule. I had a couple of periods with 28 hours and a few with 35, the normal amount of hours being around 30.
In upper secondary school there were again 5 periods each years during which you took different courses. One course would be 5 hours a week, and I usually took 6 or 7 courses in a period, which means 30 or 35 hours of school. I had maybe a couple of periods with 5 or 8 courses during my time in upper secondary school.
At university, however, we have less classes and more independent work (I don't mean we didn't have homework in comprehensive school or upper secondary school, just that it didn't take up as much time then). In my first year at university I sat at school for about 27 hours a week in the autumn semester and a bit less in the spring. I made 80 credits that year, when 60 is the recommended amount. On my second year I did 65 credits, sat at school maybe 15-20 hours a week, but spent twice as much time with homework as I did on my first year. I still don't know what my schedule will look like this year, I just hope I won't be constantly as tired as I was last year.
I have to say it sounds like I've got it easy!
Yay! Marks are in for the summer finally, did alright, so now I can start breathing again - my stress level has gone wayyyyy down, and I think I will sleep better now. Time to enjoy my two week vacation before it starts all over again.
FIRST DAY OF CLASSES AT PHC! I am officially a college frosh - just finished my u.s. history class and am off to logic presently.
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Originally Posted by andave_ya
whooo Hoooooo!
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Originally Posted by andave_ya
one week left, and I'm already hearing those school bells ring
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