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Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 11:46 am
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Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 1:51 pm
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Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 2:55 pm
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back at my high school we had Concurrent Credit courses, being that they were classes closer to a college level that you could receive college credit for if the university accepted it. if it's like that then no, you won't be taking it with college students. however if it is on a college campus there is a possibility of that if that particular class isn't set aside just for students still in high school. the teacher's method of teaching is different from high school too. they teach you more than just what you need to learn for the exam and want you to actually retain and think about the information rather than just regurgitate it back onto the page. so like with anthropology, rather than just knowing all the terms, the theories, the types of humanoid skeletons and such, they'll want you to be able to apply it to other areas if at all possible, and the same goes for any philosophy course. assignments vary too. most of the classes will have reading homework, being a chapter out of the text book you need to have read by the next class to help you understand the material better, but some have assignments throughout to help you with that too. be it writing a paper on the subject to show how well you understand it or something else but it does happen.
moving on again, a lot of the teachers actually really like talking to their students either about the material or expanding on it, answering questions, what have you. at least the ones I have. they like students who are engaged in the lessons and material and if you're a high school student in a college level course i'm sure they'd expect you to come up to them a bit, at least when the classes were first starting out so you got the hang of things. I will say that yes, your studying may have to change a bit. college courses have a lot more information crammed into them that you have to work with remembering or connecting to later and previous topics covered. as an example, taking a second language course in high school for an entire year would be the same as taking one semester of it in college. the workload is a bit heavier, the recommendation is that per week you spend an hour studying per credit the course is worth. so math/science courses that are 4 credits should have 4 hours of studying that subject alone. so your study methods may change but the good news is that there's a lot of resources available and, especially if you're with other college students, you can get together in study groups which really helps with the studying as well because you can talk to others about it too.
....okay that was a lot of typing but I really hope something in there makes you a little less worried. college courses are different from high school ones but if you pay attention and do the assignments then they're a lot of fun too and then they aren't nearly as stressful or scary.
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Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 5:30 pm
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