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Post by mikegarrison on Jul 23, 2016 5:22:01 GMT -5
I always get so confused when people talk about "hours". We used to take classes in "units". They would be something like 4-0-8, which would mean roughly 4 hours of lecture and recitation per week, 0 hour of lab, and the "8" was an estimate how how many hours per week they expected you to work on the subject outside of class. Recitation was a usually smaller group, usually led by a TA, that was more of a Q&A format than the lectures. Anyway, the typical class was 12 units, but there were exceptions. So when people from other schools talk about "hours", I have a hard time translating to my own experience.
The minimum number of units to graduate was 360 (IIRC), so that worked out to 45 units per semester, or about 4 classes. (I see from their website that they now require 180 units, but they no longer count the general institute requirement classes in that total. Works out about the same, roughly four classes per semester.)
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Post by sunger4222 on Jul 23, 2016 7:24:58 GMT -5
I always get so confused when people talk about "hours". We used to take classes in "units". They would be something like 4-0-8, which would mean roughly 4 hours of lecture and recitation per week, 0 hour of lab, and the "8" was an estimate how how many hours per week they expected you to work on the subject outside of class. Recitation was a usually smaller group, usually led by a TA, that was more of a Q&A format than the lectures. Anyway, the typical class was 12 units, but there were exceptions. So when people from other schools talk about "hours", I have a hard time translating to my own experience. The minimum number of units to graduate was 360 (IIRC), so that worked out to 45 units per semester, or about 4 classes. (I see from their website that they now require 180 units, but they no longer count the general institute requirement classes in that total. Works out about the same, roughly four classes per semester.) The semester system I attended (Azusa Pacific) was simple: a 3 unit class met for 3 hours a week. A 4 unit met 4 hours a week. To be considered a full time student you needed a minimum of 12 units (class hours) a week. |
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Post by Phaedrus on Jul 23, 2016 7:49:36 GMT -5
I always get so confused when people talk about "hours". We used to take classes in "units". They would be something like 4-0-8, which would mean roughly 4 hours of lecture and recitation per week, 0 hour of lab, and the "8" was an estimate how how many hours per week they expected you to work on the subject outside of class. Recitation was a usually smaller group, usually led by a TA, that was more of a Q&A format than the lectures. Anyway, the typical class was 12 units, but there were exceptions. So when people from other schools talk about "hours", I have a hard time translating to my own experience. The minimum number of units to graduate was 360 (IIRC), so that worked out to 45 units per semester, or about 4 classes. (I see from their website that they now require 180 units, but they no longer count the general institute requirement classes in that total. Works out about the same, roughly four classes per semester.) The semester system I attended (Azusa Pacific) was simple: a 3 unit class met for 3 hours a week. A 4 unit met 4 hours a week. To be considered a full time student you needed a minimum of 12 units (class hours) a week. That's the way my undergrad worked. 12 was full time. If you dropped to below that you were not a full time student and all kinds of silly things happened. I usually went 15, with the intention of dropping a class that wasn't going well. I went 18 once. That sucked. |
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Post by mikegarrison on Jul 23, 2016 17:13:32 GMT -5
Huh. Another weird thing, I guess, is that we were full-time students (and paid full tuition) regardless of how many or how few classes we took in any given semester. It was like a fixed-price buffet.
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Post by sunger4222 on Jul 24, 2016 11:17:56 GMT -5
Read in the Misty May Treanor thread that she is going to LBCC....either the poster knows for sure or is hopeful... I certainly hope that's not true. Her education certainly is the most important thing in her life, and if she is attending a jr jollege, her focus needs to be on her grades. Good luck to Baylee, and as fans, we hope you return. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2016 12:41:33 GMT -5
Read in the Misty May Treanor thread that she is going to LBCC....either the poster knows for sure or is hopeful... I certainly hope that's not true. Her education certainly is the most important thing in her life, and if she is attending a jr jollege, her focus needs to be on her grades. Good luck to Baylee, and as fans, we hope you return. I hope this IS true because it means she'll likely become academically eligible again and end up playing for another team in the future. |
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Post by sunger4222 on Jul 24, 2016 13:56:41 GMT -5
I certainly hope that's not true. Her education certainly is the most important thing in her life, and if she is attending a jr jollege, her focus needs to be on her grades. Good luck to Baylee, and as fans, we hope you return. I hope this IS true because it means she'll likely become academically eligible again and end up playing for another team in the future. If this is true, could she return to USC following a successful year at a JC, or would she need to enroll at a different university? |
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Post by memorybankrupt on Jul 24, 2016 14:06:20 GMT -5
I hope this IS true because it means she'll likely become academically eligible again and end up playing for another team in the future. If this is true, could she return to USC following a successful year at a JC, or would she need to enroll at a different university? Technically I wouldn't see why she wouldnt be able to re-enroll at USC. But would USC want to risk taking back a player that could trip up again in the future? (Keep in mind I have no idea of Baylee's situation, if it's academics related). I would guess she's at LBCC to get her grades in order but then wants to still play Vball at a decent level (but then would be using at least a year of Vball eligibility). |
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Post by owlsem on Jul 24, 2016 21:26:32 GMT -5
I hope this IS true because it means she'll likely become academically eligible again and end up playing for another team in the future. If this is true, could she return to USC following a successful year at a JC, or would she need to enroll at a different university? She might be able to take hours at LBCC to transfer them into USC. Never leaving USC but taking summer school at LBCC. I did this one summer to make up for a dropped class. Less costly. |
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