[1173] in UA Senate
Re: Credit Policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anthony Rindone)
Tue Mar 8 10:11:29 2011
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=yvr=Gh9EEUnTh30LP5tqYisEqPOTT2HpnaDQ-@mail.gmail.com>
From: Anthony Rindone <arindone136@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 10:11:06 -0500
To: Alexandra Jordan <amjordan@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Timothy Robertson <tim_r@MIT.EDU>, "Benjamin I. Shaibu" <bshaibu@MIT.EDU>,
ua-scep-chairs@MIT.EDU, ua-senate@MIT.EDU, ua-scep@MIT.EDU
I think that profs/class administrators are very conscious to this
issue and is the reason why such questions are on course evaluations
at the end of the class. Unfortunately those evaluations always have
trouble getting enough responses and have sample selection issues that
bother me (only people who enjoyed the class enough to finish it or do
well in the class make up the majority of respondents.)
Also, just something to keep in mind, but it is tough enough to
balance the classes one wants with the classes required for one's
major constrained by only X hours in the day without having to play
arithmetic bingo with the number of credits one is taking a term.
Rather than have profs adjust the number of CREDITS depending upon
course load, I think you should consider recommending adjusting course
LOAD depending upon credits.
Just a lil' devil's advocate.
-Tony
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Alexandra Jordan <amjordan@mit.edu> wrote:
> Yes, I'm pretty sure that's what he is saying. I have heard similar
> complaints about course 10 classes. Though this is annoying, I also think
> it's safe to say that most HASS classes don't take nearly 12 hrs of work per
> week. Thus, any overloaded classes are compensated by the 8 subject HASS
> requirement.
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> Alexandra Jordan
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> MIT 2011
> Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science
> Political Science
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> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Timothy Robertson <tim_r@mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Are you saying that some classes have higher work loads than they are
>> currently listed as?
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 3:42 AM, Benjamin I. Shaibu <bshaibu@mit.edu>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> As we were discussing the 10 Suggestions we had for Professors, someone
>>> brought up a really good point about how some classes (specifically Course 6
>>> classes) have artificially low credit numbers in order to remain part of a
>>> Major Requirement. I thought this was a pretty good point and may be
>>> something SCEP would be interested in/able to address.
>>>
>>> When I was speaking with some of my constituents last weekend, they made
>>> a similar comment about how they felt Unified warranted more credits than it
>>> was worth. While this may not necessarily be a class that needs its credits
>>> changed, making sure credits match the hours spent in a class is something
>>> SCEP/Senate should consider pursuing.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Ben Shaibu
>>
>>
>> --
>> Tim Robertson II
>> MIT 2011
>> Mechanical Engineering
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