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Shmoop required materials - rachel83az - 03-21-2018
How often are the "required materials" actually required for Shmoop? I just subscribed and opened up "Literature in the Media" to see that you're supposed to have digital access to the NYT and New Yorker, along with a bunch of books and movies you're supposed to watch/read.
Are these things actually necessary or can you pass Shmoop courses without having to deal with this stuff?
RE: Shmoop required materials - davewill - 03-21-2018
You can get student access to the NYT for $1 per week. You can get student access to the New Yorker at a 12 weeks for $6 introductory rate. Both include full archival access. Of course you'll have to actually be a student somewhere.
RE: Shmoop required materials - rachel83az - 03-21-2018
Hmm. I'll have to look for those.
But is it this a common thing with Shmoop? I was under the impression that Shmoop included everything, but I guess that explains why it's cheaper than the other providers.
RE: Shmoop required materials - Ideas - 03-21-2018
(03-21-2018, 04:02 PM)rachel83az Wrote: Hmm. I'll have to look for those.
But is it this a common thing with Shmoop? I was under the impression that Shmoop included everything, but I guess that explains why it's cheaper than the other providers.
I think it's common for the Lit courses to need books. Another user here was a bit upset that after enrolling she had to spend a week gathering up the books and movies that were required, wasting some of the membership time.
RE: Shmoop required materials - xjarhead1999 - 03-21-2018
I was considering trying Shmoop next month. This kind of makes me rethink it. Don't want to waste time having to go look for stuff.
A list of classes that outside sources are needed would be nice to see. Could gather everything ahead of time to avoid wasting membership time.
RE: Shmoop required materials - rachel83az - 03-21-2018
If you want to PM me a list of what you'd take at Shmoop, I'll let you know what the required materials are (if any). They really ought to have this information available beforehand.
RE: Shmoop required materials - xjarhead1999 - 03-21-2018
(03-21-2018, 06:54 PM)rachel83az Wrote: If you want to PM me a list of what you'd take at Shmoop, I'll let you know what the required materials are (if any). They really ought to have this information available beforehand.I appreciate that. Right now I'm not sure though. I've only glanced over their courses. Haven't compared to degree plans I have yet. I still am working on study.com courses until the end of next month. That's when I was looking at doing a month at Shmoop to see if I like it.
RE: Shmoop required materials - originalamyj - 03-22-2018
I took 5 of the lit courses from them and never used an outside book. Most of the books are available with Shmoop summaries. And if they don't have them, someone does. I found Holocaust Lit to be the hardest. Shmoop doesn't have a summary of one of the books (The Sunflower), but it was described in detail in the unit. And I admit to getting very confused by Everything is Illuminated (book and movie).
Their other courses are likely to have all the books either in their database or somewhere online.
RE: Shmoop required materials - jsh1138 - 03-22-2018
my experience with Shmoop is that you can pass the courses purely with the summaries Shmoop provides you. I would not buy any materials to take the courses if i were you, especially because some of them literally "require" you to buy 40 books or something ridiculous like that
Holocaust Lit asks you for something like 6, 3 of which I already owned, and I passed the sections on the other 3 no problem. Just really read the summaries closely and you'll be fine
RE: Shmoop required materials - rachel83az - 03-22-2018
Wasn't planning on buying anything since I think most of the stuff can be found at the library. But not having to acquire them at all is even better.