What classes are you taking?

I'm taking intro to philosophy, intro to sociology, intermediate algebra, comp 2 and hopefully intro to criminal justice

 

my 1st semester

Obstetric and Gynaecology - 4 cr [done]
Neurology - 3 cr [done]
Forensic and Medicolegal - 2cr [done]
Anesthesiology and Reanimation - 3 cr [ongoing]

While most for most of us the semester just begin. Mine almost ended... And there will be no semester break in between :dry:

 

Ugh, classes. I'm taking physics (mechanics, also a lab course), US history, American government, world literatures, and intro to psychology. Not my favorite lineup, but still better than last year.

 

Economics and business.. nothing else. Most students in the UK study one subject, two at most if it's a joint degree, like what I'm doing.

 

Starting my GCSE's this year, I'm taking Music, German, Biology, Chemisty and Physics (taking them seperatley counts as a choice because you have more lessons), and History, as well as the main subject you have to do.

 

I've not chosen all of my modules, I choose 3 per semester. So far I've picked history of the North Sea and the Baltic and Scottish Devolution.

 

Are you kidding me? Do you know how boring my first semester schedule was? Boring and painful. F@#k science degrees. I should have never signed up for them.

 

Human Disease/Therapeutics II
Pharmacokinetics (kill me now, I hate math .-.)
Geriatric Pharmacy Elective
Practice Lab and Case Studies III
Pharmacology II
Drug Info and Literature Evaluation

 

AP Psychology
World Literature
AP Calculus AB
Physics
Journalism
AP Government

 

Im on my last year in college, hopefully will graduate next year. Here are my classes this semester:
Advance 3D Modeling and Animation
Multimedia Research (thesis)
Advance Web Design
Interactive Authoring
Logic and Critical Thinking
General Chemistry

Next semester, I will have my internship

 

First Semester:
-Microbiology
-Cell Biology
-Orgo Chem
-Diversity of Plants
-Ecology

Sadly just the way things fit I have both my electives second semester -_-

 

I'm not completely sure yet, but here's my ideal schedule--
British Poetry 1st semester; Creative Writing 2nd semester
AB Calculus
AP Chemistry
Politics of Identity 1st semester
Latin poetry 1st semester, cleopatra second

 

Latin poetry! Ah, I'm so jealous. I am really diggin' learning Latin.

I graduated from college already, but I'm auditing Latin III (!) this fall and I'm so pumped about it.

 

First year too--finishing my generals, and off to join a psychology program next semester

1.) Psychology of Death and Dying (it's actually a thing!)
2.) Environmental Chemistry
3.) Introduction to Statistics
4.) Oceanography

 

Woah, I'm really confused now. Do Americans not just do a degree in one thing? That doesn't seem very practical, why know a few things relatively well rather than one thing very well? Anyway, I'm starting year one at university in a month, doing a computer sciences degree.

 

Bachelor degrees in the U.S. are fifty percent broad and fifty percent specific. You can attend schools that do not require general education, but they are considered less desirable by employees. Additionally, double majoring, pursuing two bachelor degrees at the same time, is very common in American universities. As well as pursuing a minor, specialization, or certificate along a degree. So, it is very common for someone to be studying a science alongside journalism for instance.

 

Yeah, it's pretty stupid. Sometimes, it's like you have to study stuff to meet your general ed even if it doesn't relate to your field (like a biology major having to take a renaissance literature class or an english major taking trigonometry). I get trying to be balanced and all but you're paying thousands of dollars for your degree over here, why not study what's going to be practical and useful and save time on the degree?

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As for me... unfortunately, probably going to have to take the year off. But depending on the transfer requirements for the university I'm applying to, I may make up the rest of my classes at the local community college.

 

That certainly is an eye opener, but it still seems illogical to me. Why does it matter if an engineer knows the full works of Shakespeare, or a drama student can work out the angles of a triangle? Why do employers find a mixed degree more desirable? Here in the UK you CAN do a 50/50 degree in two subjects, but they're only really done if you don't plan to follow your degree onto a specific career, or the subjects are related (biology and chemistry, for example).