Spring 1 Session 1 -- What is YOURPace?

[wildebeest]

Finished HTY 115: World Civ I early last week. I had already taken Western Civ on SDC, and knew a lot of the material, but it was still pretty time consuming. I enjoyed it, however, and like the professor (Sebold). All told, I probably wrote about 2,500 words for the milestones and another 4,500 for the final PowerPoint project. That's about 7,000 words.

I am now almost finished with HTY 116: World Civ II, having finished the material and needing to turn in one more milestone and the final project. In terms of learning material, it's about half as long as World Civ I, but in order to complete the milestones well, each has been between 800 and 1,800 words. So far, I've written about 3,500 words and expect the last milestone to be another 1,500. Adding in the final project, I expect I will have done about 10,000 words in writing. 

Given that your average book is about 80,000 words, at this rate, when I'm done with my history degree, I'll have done a good-sized book's worth of writing.

EDIT: There may be a way to complete this degree with less writing, but after two classes, I have yet to figure it out. Fortunately, I enjoy writing, but I'm not sure how somebody who disliked it would fare.