Tuesday, April 3, 2012
The Business of Art
Saturday, November 5, 2011
WORK WORK WORK
On average most of the undergraduate classes I've taken are worth 3 units. Each class meets twice a week for 80 minutes every time, for a total of 160 minutes of class time each week. Each semester is scheduled for 16 weeks and it's typical to have 1 session off due to a holiday. It's suggested that time outside of school spent on homework and study should be twice as the time spent in class. This would gross an additional 160 minutes of study times 2, a total of 320 minutes per week for homework. Adding class time of 160 minutes per week and 320 of homework gives us a total of 480 minutes or 8 hours a week. Over the 16 or 15.5 weeks when you subtract the session missed for a holiday you get a total of 124 hours needed for application in a 3 unit class.
A four year diploma at USC requires 128 units, at UCLA 180 units. We'll use 120 units for this scenario. You can reach 12 units per semester and 3 units during intersessions, giving us a round 30 units per school year. If we use the average 3 unit class to figure out the number of courses we are to take to graduate we get a total of 40 classes in 4 years to complete 120 units. If we use the previous formula of 124 hours required per every 3 unit class, we see that 124 hours X 40 classes gives us a total of 4,960 hours. 4960 hours divided by 160, the average monthly hours of a full-time employee, gives us a total of 31 full months(2 years, 7 months) of school spent in getting a bachelor's degree in 4 years.
My 12 academic units this semester meet on Mondays and Wednesdays from 8-9:20a, 9:30-10:50a, 2:15-3:35p, Tuesdays and Thursdays I have one class from 2:15-3:35p. My music performance meets Mondays from 6:45-9:45p. My days off from classes are Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Using the formula above and only factoring 3 hours for the music performance class I would need to allot 35 hours per week for school, I spend over 40 hours a week on school related work.
Besides having to stay healthy, sleeping well, and making a living for some, there is life with all it's non-academic challenges that demands the student's attention as well.
Like most things in life, it depends on the individual on how well they fare in school. There are no guarantees as to having a career in one's field of study following graduation. The majority of the courses taken in 4 years at a college are a collection of introductory courses in a multitude disciplines. It seems like a disproportionate sacrifice to be able to even compete in the workforce.
What are the first twelve to fourteen years of education for? Why do careers that use to require twelve years of education that perform the same operations today require four or more additional years of schooling?
There are people with extensive knowledge in various disciplines, in some cases significantly more than people with doctorate degrees that have a lower status in society or in the field because of this admission of entrance. I won't get into the many other real obstacles that a person faces when attempting to acquire a degree in this blog. These are mostly thoughts and frustrations of a second year college student stuck doing homework daily.
A four year diploma at USC requires 128 units, at UCLA 180 units. We'll use 120 units for this scenario. You can reach 12 units per semester and 3 units during intersessions, giving us a round 30 units per school year. If we use the average 3 unit class to figure out the number of courses we are to take to graduate we get a total of 40 classes in 4 years to complete 120 units. If we use the previous formula of 124 hours required per every 3 unit class, we see that 124 hours X 40 classes gives us a total of 4,960 hours. 4960 hours divided by 160, the average monthly hours of a full-time employee, gives us a total of 31 full months(2 years, 7 months) of school spent in getting a bachelor's degree in 4 years.
My 12 academic units this semester meet on Mondays and Wednesdays from 8-9:20a, 9:30-10:50a, 2:15-3:35p, Tuesdays and Thursdays I have one class from 2:15-3:35p. My music performance meets Mondays from 6:45-9:45p. My days off from classes are Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Using the formula above and only factoring 3 hours for the music performance class I would need to allot 35 hours per week for school, I spend over 40 hours a week on school related work.
Besides having to stay healthy, sleeping well, and making a living for some, there is life with all it's non-academic challenges that demands the student's attention as well.
Like most things in life, it depends on the individual on how well they fare in school. There are no guarantees as to having a career in one's field of study following graduation. The majority of the courses taken in 4 years at a college are a collection of introductory courses in a multitude disciplines. It seems like a disproportionate sacrifice to be able to even compete in the workforce.
What are the first twelve to fourteen years of education for? Why do careers that use to require twelve years of education that perform the same operations today require four or more additional years of schooling?
There are people with extensive knowledge in various disciplines, in some cases significantly more than people with doctorate degrees that have a lower status in society or in the field because of this admission of entrance. I won't get into the many other real obstacles that a person faces when attempting to acquire a degree in this blog. These are mostly thoughts and frustrations of a second year college student stuck doing homework daily.
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