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Originally Posted by look 171
I was not a good student and struggled through high school due to lack of interest. As we age, my interests are similar to ones you mentioned, history, arts and even some of the things that end with "ologies", cultural type stuff.
As a young buck, not if you they have to pay for it especially if its an expensive private school. I think you will get a different answer from a starving student then a financially established middle age or old man. We had to take three, a semester worth of absolutely worthless upper division humanity types classes jsut so we can move on with our lives. Oh yeah, it was mandatory and we had to pay for them. They sprung that on us couple years back. We were pissed to say the least. I ended up taking some type of religious studies class which I had to force myself to forget everything that was taught in that class. The other was artist from the St Lawrence River area. I forgoteen about the third one, but what a complete waste of time and money. Plus, live in the west coast, so what the hell do I care about the St Lawrence River? Many of us stuck it through because it was the last hurdle before we start working to earn money just so we can have a life.
Now, I say it great bit it should be offer or taken at a community college at a discounted rate, 30-50 bucks a unit?
Other that that, it is robbery just like making doming mandatory for freshmen. Oh, you gotta to pay for that too doesn't matter if you live 10 min from school. Spread those cheeks.
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The college I work for used to be a community college then we started offering a few BAS degrees (Batch of Applied Science - think about a double AS degree for getting good jobs doing software dev, nursing, etc), and we're not legally allowed to call ourselves a community college...
But we're just shy of $100/credit hour for in-state tuition. Good news, is that our AA degrees take care of all of those "well rounding" courses at UF ("the other school in town") or any other state Uni in Florida. Undergrad courses at "the other school in town" are about $300/credit hour.
Also, a lot of the BS things we have students do like Life Skills or Violence Awareness are little courses in our LMS that students need to complete some of before registering, some of before registering for 2nd or 3rd term, some before graduation, some only if they are international students, etc. And, we don't charge for 'em. (They drive me nutz since I'm the guy that does the middleware to pull results, manage enrollements etc).
The only other BS "well rounding" things we do are involved with various classes (like when you take certain courses like ENC1101 or College Algebra you are added to a cohort that does some special tracking of your progress and issues early alerts to both you, your instructors and your advisors)
We have bridge programs to degree tracks at UF - like our Gator Engineering program. You apply to UF Engineering, you are accepted for a future date, and you get to take the weed out classes and geneds (college chemistry 1 &2, college fizzicks 1 and 2, math thru Calc w/ Diff Eq) at lesser cost and with 25 students per class and instructors where just about everyone either is a native english speaker or they are at least clear and fluent and everything they say will be understandable.... and after your first 2 years, you get to go to the big school....