Good news!

[icepixie]

Apparently I am a GIANT DORK and only just now realized that I have to take just two courses next year, not three. That means I can drop or audit one of the two I signed up for next semester! HOORAY!

Of course, now the question becomes...which do I keep? I still need another 600-level course, which would argue for the George Eliot seminar (so I won't be leaving that requirement to my last semester), but I'm very intrigued by the 500-level poetry criticism course--which would also be applicable to my thesis. Hmm. Decisions, decisions...

(Also, YAAAAAAY I'M NOT GOING TO GO CRAZY NEXT SEMESTER YAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY.)

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[icepixie]

A half-unit was equivalent to three credit-hours at normal institutions, so from there the math works out much the same. You had to have two units (four classes) per semester to be considered full-time, though most everyone took a bit more (I tended to do 2.25, with choir as a fourth of a unit). You needed sixteen units to graduate.

[sleepingcbw.livejournal.com]

(Half a unit = four hours, actually. That's how I got up to 32 hours senior year without dying. ^_^)

[icepixie]

I always thought it was three--in the sense that a "credit-hour" means, well, one hour fifty minutes/week of class. Right? Although I always thought it was odd that we just took four classes per semester standard when everyone else was taking five.

That's how I got up to 32 hours senior year without dying. ^_^

FREAK.

[sleepingcbw.livejournal.com]

It's supposed to mean that. I guess Kenyon just figured... its classes are harder than anyone else's? I dunno.

[icepixie]

How very strange. (Although for the record, Kenyon's classes are waaaaay harder than anything here.)

[sleepingcbw.livejournal.com]

Huh. I should take an English class here and see if that holds true. :)

[icepixie]

You should! The 400-level I'm taking this semester reminds of something between a 200- and 300-level at Kenyon. (For the undergrads, I mean. I as a grad student did more than they did.) Even the graduate courses here aren't more reading or much more writing than a 400-level at Kenyon, but the quality is expected to be much better. As it should be, I suppose.

[sleepingcbw.livejournal.com]

Hrmm. There's a grad seminar on narrative theory! (There's also a survey-of-all-theory-ever class, but it conflicts with topology, which is actually relevant to my degree.)


Even the graduate courses here aren't more reading or much more writing than a 400-level at Kenyon, but the quality is expected to be much better. As it should be, I suppose.

I never took a 400-level, somehow (other than the various Klein 400s, which don't count). That makes sense, though.

[icepixie]

Taaaaaaaake iiiiiiit...

I never took a non-Klein 400-level either, but I heard about them from other people. And to be honest, McMullen's 300-level class required more writing than this 400-level. So did all my 300-level classes in England.

[sleepingcbw.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Jen was profoundly unimpressed by her 400s, and she did a semester that was all 400s.


And to be honest, McMullen's 300-level class required more writing than this 400-level.

Ahhh, McMullen.