reddude333
Giga Poster
^^Yeah, currently I have 16 hours in class per week. And we have these obnoxious posters throughout campus that say 25-35 hours of studying per week (or 2 for every 1 in lecture) Psh! How funny! 
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reddude333
Giga Poster
^Getting out of school early...lucky...I'm probably gonna have to stay an extra quarter just to get my BS and I'm a quarter ahead of schedule right now. Let's hope I can maintain that.
LiveForTheLaunch
CF Legend
Wow, your whole thing with modules and units and hours is all confusing . Thankfully I only have 11 hours of lecture per week because even though I'm taking five courses, one of them is online and is piss easy <3
Ours is just five courses per semester, or ten courses a year. No weird thing about 10 units and 20 units . At the uni I'm at now, courses only run Sept-Dec and Jan-April, whereas at the uni I was at last year, some ran all year long. The method at the uni I'm at now is much easier though.
. Thankfully I only have 11 hours of lecture per week because even though I'm taking five courses, one of them is online and is piss easy <3Ours is just five courses per semester, or ten courses a year. No weird thing about 10 units and 20 units
. At the uni I'm at now, courses only run Sept-Dec and Jan-April, whereas at the uni I was at last year, some ran all year long. The method at the uni I'm at now is much easier though.
LiveForTheLaunch
CF Legend
^ It's pretty easy for me because I'm interested in it, it's just a lot of reading and there are some classes I am SO not interested in (prewar cinema history is one of those). I also do a minor in German language and culture which isn't that easy . School here works differently though, your courses aren't really set out and half the time you end up taking courses that don't even really pertain to your area of study. Right now though my classes are pretty simple, minus the one I mentioned before, which is probably quite easy but just very hard to pay attention to or even attend. German Civilization is only hard because the textbook is ridiculous.
. School here works differently though, your courses aren't really set out and half the time you end up taking courses that don't even really pertain to your area of study. Right now though my classes are pretty simple, minus the one I mentioned before, which is probably quite easy but just very hard to pay attention to or even attend. German Civilization is only hard because the textbook is ridiculous.
LiveForTheLaunch
CF Legend
^ Yah but we aren't required to do math and stuff I was into nursing but the classes were just disgustingly uninteresting. At least with history the classes are interesting
I was into nursing but the classes were just disgustingly uninteresting. At least with history the classes are interesting
reddude333
Giga Poster
My classes are just tough...except programming (and chem isn't too bad either)
tomahawk
Strata Poster
Being a history major is amazing, best decision I ever made. I mean when I can take a class that is History of Baseball, you can't be making that many bad life decisions...if you like baseball that is. Question for Ben and Taylor, did/do either of you have to have a focus for your degree, or is it just general history? For me it's just general History, but I have purposely made my focus on Germany, as 4 of my 7 upper division classes are all based on Germany, but there is no "set" focus. Just interested to see how other schools do it.
LiveForTheLaunch
CF Legend
Uhh, well we're not forced to focus, but you're suppose to kind of choose an area of history and then base your class choices around that. The course choices for history are sort of small at my uni though so it's a bit hard, but I'm trying to focus more on Roman and European history.
I'm back, whut.
School: University of Michigan
Year: Freshman
Concentration/Major: Business/Economics/Political Science/History/Holycrapidkwhattodowithmylife
Classes this Semester: Data/Functions/Other Math Stuff, Microeconomics, Political Theory, Ancient Greek History
Classes next Semester: Calculus I, Astronomy, Cultural Anthropology, Ancient Roman History
Aspirations: Working for an investment bank in NY (arghhhhh Occupy Wall Street )
I love college.
School: University of Michigan
Year: Freshman
Concentration/Major: Business/Economics/Political Science/History/Holycrapidkwhattodowithmylife
Classes this Semester: Data/Functions/Other Math Stuff, Microeconomics, Political Theory, Ancient Greek History
Classes next Semester: Calculus I, Astronomy, Cultural Anthropology, Ancient Roman History
Aspirations: Working for an investment bank in NY (arghhhhh Occupy Wall Street
)I love college.
reddude333
Giga Poster
^When do you have to declare by?
LiveForTheLaunch
CF Legend
^ Whoa, you'd go three years without declaring? I thought undeclared was just a first year thing. I'm pretty sure that's the way it works here, anyway.
I picked my courses for next semester and I'm pretty happy with them!
- Making History: Methods and Practices
- Foundations of Academic Writing II
- Introduction to Roman Civilization
- Renaissance Ideas: Sculpting the Italian Mind
- Culture and Ideas: Black Death to the Enlightenment
I was bummed I couldn't do the Greek courses, but I am considering asking for a double major in classical civilizations as well that way I can do them. They require prerequisites too, so I'm trying to get all the prereqs this year that way I can take them all next year. The stupid writing course and Making History course are mandatory, and so is the Black Death one for my minor. I only took the Italian one because the professor is incredible. Even if he were teaching about like, something boring and random, it'd still be amazing.
I picked my courses for next semester and I'm pretty happy with them!
- Making History: Methods and Practices
- Foundations of Academic Writing II
- Introduction to Roman Civilization
- Renaissance Ideas: Sculpting the Italian Mind
- Culture and Ideas: Black Death to the Enlightenment
I was bummed I couldn't do the Greek courses, but I am considering asking for a double major in classical civilizations as well that way I can do them. They require prerequisites too, so I'm trying to get all the prereqs this year that way I can take them all next year. The stupid writing course and Making History course are mandatory, and so is the Black Death one for my minor. I only took the Italian one because the professor is incredible. Even if he were teaching about like, something boring and random, it'd still be amazing.
I've looked around and I can't find any specific time by which we have to declare, but the website says almost everyone declares by the end of their sophomore/start of their junior years, so take that for what it's worth, I guess. I'm probably not going to wait that long, but for the people who do, there's always the General Studies major available.
reddude333
Giga Poster
At Cal Poly you declare on your application to the school so that they can start you on discipline-specific courses from day one. I'm happy with my choice
