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Time wrote on 2014-09-27 16:09
Hey, I have a quick question and Im not sure where else to go.
Im home on break for a bit so I figured id try and place together a schedule for next semester, I wanted to fulfill some gen-ed requirements, and one says.
" are considered to have completed two semesters of a college-level language and can fulfill the
requirement by completing either the third semester college-level course of that language or the second semester college level course of a second foreign language."
What is a second semester or third semester course? Ive googled it and only found people using the phrase, and I have no clue what it means?
Thanks a bunch.
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Osayidan wrote on 2014-09-27 16:57
Can't be sure for the US but over here college isn't done in "years" but in semesters, usually 2 in 1 year unless you cram in a 3rd one over summer. So a second semester course is usually one you would be taking after completing the first semester of that course, like English 101 followed by 102.
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Shanghai wrote on 2014-09-27 17:36
Some classes are only available and offered in one or more semesters across the entire school-year. Since it sounds like you're taking a language class, they're factoring in the ability to test into the language to see if you can skip the beginning few levels of the language, get credit for them, and then be able to take the later levels of that language class.
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Time wrote on 2014-09-27 18:30
Alright, we have semesters, Ive just never heard of classes being referred to in this way. So essentially a "second semester course" is just a class that if you were to take a basic progression of course levels, 101 to 102, would be the second course? It just seems like a confusing way of referring to classes, because you dont actually have to take classes in that order.
So for instance, right now im taking ITAL 111, but there is no ITAL 112, but there is an ITAL 115, so does this mean ITAL 111 is a "first semester course" since it is just the basics, and then progression wise I have to take ITAL 115 for it to meet my requirements?
Thank you very much by the way. Life is confusing.
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Osayidan wrote on 2014-09-27 20:19
It's always confusing.
Another thing it can mean is the course is only offered on X semester of the year.
For example when I was in graphic design the photoshop class was only offered in the fall semester, so anyone needing to do that course had to wait until that semester was active. They didn't refer to it as a "first semester course" though, they referred to it by season, since semesters were fall (september - december) and winter (january - may) and summer.
College is a confusing thing. I suspect they do it on purpose.
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Second wrote on 2014-09-27 22:08
Quote from Time;1249001:
So for instance, right now im taking ITAL 111, but there is no ITAL 112, but there is an ITAL 115, so does this mean ITAL 111 is a "first semester course" since it is just the basics, and then progression wise I have to take ITAL 115 for it to meet my requirements?
First number is the year, the other 2 I think means difficulty. Like 101 are all introduction courses. Your 115 course doesn't necessarily mean that it's a 2nd semester course just because it's higher than 111.
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Campylobacter jejuni wrote on 2014-09-29 14:09
Quote from Second;1249028:
First number is the year, the other 2 I think means difficulty. Like 101 are all introduction courses. Your 115 course doesn't necessarily mean that it's a 2nd semester course just because it's higher than 111.
So that's where that expression comes from...