One thing I have noticed at CSUN is that I can never get the classes I want/need at the times I want/need. I work full time and it is so hard to manage both school and work when I have 4 hour gaps in my classes. I wish that I could write the schedule sometimes. With it being so hard to get the classes that I need, I take classes at Pierce to make up for the lack of available courses/seats. In almost all of my classes, there has been a ton of people trying to add the class for the first 1-2 weeks. I would not be able to do that. The odds are so slim that it seems like a lost cause. Maybe if we didn't have to take so many GE's that usually have nothing to do with our major, there would be more seats available in classes.
I do not know why I am complaining, eventually the world will be completely online anyways. I am now discovering the online classes available at other colleges and see the future. I am shocked that people can take these classes 100% online. I would think they would want to see your face when taking the exams at least...
Good luck to all who have the same scheduling issues that I have.
-Kourtney
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Schools are business in a way they make us take GE's to take our money.
Hmmm.
A different perspective, FWIW:
Universities are not tech schools. There are great tech schools, and great vocational colleges, and great job-training programs outside of universities. And then there are universities. When you come to University, GE courses are supposed to be part of the package -- at least they have been, traditionally. That's the kind of University I was schooled in, and that's the kind I hope to be part of, where GE requirements are still real and meaningful and accomplish something.
Just my .02.
CSUN has real difficulties with making enough classes available to students at times when students want to take them. But is the solution to that just to cut away all the requirements, so that the degree no longer means what a university degree is supposed to mean?
BTW, the comment about online classes is very timely. There are strong disagreements going on now about what online education is going to bring and whether we should welcome it or not. (Some of these disagreements are being aired right here at CSUN.) I'd like to see some digging into that topic! I bet there's a variety of opinions out there among students as well.
Check out, for example, Education Week for coverage of online education.
I would totally agree with Kourtney about how the school needs to work on the class schedules. I face the same problem every time I register for classes. I cannot never get the classes I need for graduation. The most important classes I need to take are only offer once a week. Sometimes the classes are even cancel. For example, the Urban Studies and Planning department don't offer enough classes in the summer, even in a 15 week semester.
I hope that CSUN will one day invest more money in the future to hire more professors, not just in the Urban Studies and Planning department but in all departments to teach and to have more classes available.
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