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Recommended number of courses - manmanthegr8 - 02-17-2021
Hello,
I am currently registered for 3 courses, but I am not sure if I should add one more. The other class I would add would possibly be the capstone or another UL CS course. I am currently unemployed (due to coronavirus) and would have a lot of free time to allocate towards coursework. I am looking for advice from those who have taken 3-4 courses to see if the course load is manageable. This is my first (and possibly last) semester at TESU, so I don't really know the courses' structure and workload.
RE: Recommended number of courses - LevelUP - 02-17-2021
If you do 16CR at TESU, you don't have to pay the residency waiver and pay the flat-rate course fee of $4639.
My suggestion for people thinking of doing 16CR is to consider the following?
1. Have you proven you can do 20hr a week of school work consistently?
2. Do you have 20hr a week of free time for 3 months?
3. Can you write papers at a decent pace. How long does it take you to write a 1000 word research paper?
I have taken now 6 classes at TESU including both Capstones. TESU is easy once you figure out the system.
In order to figure how a course plan, we would need to know your major (CS?) and what courses you need?
I would stay away from stacking courses with a lot of exams and large books that you have to read. Pick the right courses and it's easy.
RE: Recommended number of courses - manmanthegr8 - 02-17-2021
(02-17-2021, 05:26 PM)LevelUP Wrote: If you do 16CR at TESU, you don't have to pay the residency waiver and pay the flat-rate course fee of $4639.I will post my plan later, but I only need UL CS credits and the capstone. I want to do a residency as well, so I need 16 credits. I have Sixteen credits left. This coming term, I am taking three courses, CMP-354, CIS-351, and the cornerstone class. I plan to either add the capstone on this term or next term (April).
My suggestion for people thinking of doing 16CR is to consider the following?
1. Have you proven you can do 20hr a week of school work consistently?
2. Do you have 20hr a week of free time for 3 months?
3. Can you write papers at a decent pace. How long does it take you to write a 1000 word research paper?
I have taken now 6 classes at TESU including both Capstones. TESU is easy once you figure out the system.
In order to figure how a course plan, we would need to know your major (CS?) and what courses you need?
I would stay away from stacking courses with a lot of exams and large books that you have to read. Pick the right courses and it's easy.
(02-17-2021, 05:26 PM)LevelUP Wrote: If you do 16CR at TESU, you don't have to pay the residency waiver and pay the flat-rate course fee of $4639.
My suggestion for people thinking of doing 16CR is to consider the following?
1. Have you proven you can do 20hr a week of school work consistently?
2. Do you have 20hr a week of free time for 3 months?
3. Can you write papers at a decent pace. How long does it take you to write a 1000 word research paper?
I have taken now 6 classes at TESU including both Capstones. TESU is easy once you figure out the system.
In order to figure how a course plan, we would need to know your major (CS?) and what courses you need?
I would stay away from stacking courses with a lot of exams and large books that you have to read. Pick the right courses and it's easy.
Also, plenty of free time, no job weighing me down currently. I am not sure how long it would take to write an intensive essay with the other classes as I hear both of the other courses are writing intensive. I guess that answers my question; maybe I should wait until I am near these courses' end.
RE: Recommended number of courses - dfrecore - 02-17-2021
We're discussing this on some other threads: how about taking some ePack courses to get you to 16cr, without having to eat up a lot of your time? Choose 3 ePack courses that you can easily pass, a 1cr course like the Jane Austen Pride & Prejudice course, and then the cornerstone and capstone, and you hit your 16cr mark without having to actually "take" 16cr at once.
Just a thought, but I think it's doable if there are 3 ePack's you can study for and pass easily. They are ungraded, so don't hurt your GPA if you don't score high (not that you don't want to pass, that's going to throw off the whole plan).
RE: Recommended number of courses - PrettyFlyforaChiGuy - 02-17-2021
If it helps you to gauge, typical full-time course loads average to about 15 semester credit hours, whether UL or LL, writing-intensive or project-intensive. Since you'll have plenty of time, I also have plenty of faith in you to knock out 16 just fine if you wanted to get it all behind you.
RE: Recommended number of courses - LevelUP - 02-18-2021
The Liberal Arts capstone is just one big 4000-word paper.
You could hack that course by writing your thesis (use an online generator), do an outline, and write the entire paper before you start the class. That would be at least 1/2 of the work of that class done. They let you pick your own topic to write about.
RE: Recommended number of courses - Holmes - 02-18-2021
(02-18-2021, 09:02 AM)LevelUP Wrote: The Liberal Arts capstone is just one big 4000-word paper.
You could hack that course by writing your thesis (use an online generator), do an outline, and write the entire paper before you start the class. That would be at least 1/2 of the work of that class done. They let you pick your own topic to write about.
Can you elaborate on the "online generator" please?
RE: Recommended number of courses - rachel83az - 02-18-2021
(02-18-2021, 10:02 AM)Holmes Wrote:(02-18-2021, 09:02 AM)LevelUP Wrote: The Liberal Arts capstone is just one big 4000-word paper.
You could hack that course by writing your thesis (use an online generator), do an outline, and write the entire paper before you start the class. That would be at least 1/2 of the work of that class done. They let you pick your own topic to write about.
Can you elaborate on the "online generator" please?
There are some online generators that allow you to put in a topic and why you feel that way and it builds a thesis statement from it. IMO, these are pretty worthless because if I already knew that then I wouldn't be using a thesis generator in the first place!
https://www.esc.edu/learning-support/thesis-generator/index.php
https://writingcenter.uagc.edu/thesis-generator
I want one that gives me the whole thing. Give me something to riff off of and I can do well. Tell me I can write about literally anything and I am stuck.