I'm a new student here (transferred in as a junior). So far all of my classes have mandatory attendence policies that are enforced by random taking of attendence, in-claes work, etc. Is this a university-wide thing? I rarely had mandatory attendence at community college.
Normally it would be fine but I have this horribly dry snoozer of a lecture at 8:10 that I would really rather skip and study at home for.
Posted Aug 29, 2018, 2:57 PM UTC
Not a university policy as far as I know. Different departments may place an emphasis on it though and some classes like History 305 (which I assume you're taking?) universally require it.
Is history 305 the roots of contemporary issues class? I'm going to take an equivalent class online through my community college over the summer and transfer it. The class actually looks pretty awful, at least the online summer version.
It is the Roots class. I would be very careful about that. I have heard it is an incredibly difficult class to get transfer credit for unless you already have your AA. I'd check out the link below and maybe reach out to someone to make sure. Don't want to waste time and money taking a class that doesn't transfer.
I've heard that too. I have a friend who just finished the class through our CC, so I should know for sure if it transfers soon.
I've also heard that you can take History 105 (I think that was the number) to cover the same requirement.
105/305 are functionally the same class. 105 is intended for freshmen, while 305 is intended for transfers.
It is the one class everyone at WSU takes. So even though it's not the most fun class ever, it is a bonding experience.
I’d just take it in person. It was one of my harder classes taken and you’ll want to be there to learn how to select legitimate sources.
It's a class to class thing and you just lucked out. Mind you community college attendance policy is very different than university. Some teachers take attendance every day, others once or twice a week, others dgaf if you show up or not. It's all about that specific teacher's attendance policy.
You could show up to that lecture and just sleep through it though and next semester take a class later than 8 am because sometimes that can be tough if you aren't set in a routine yet.
At my community college I had a 7:30 class. I was really looking forward to avoiding early classes in University, but that's sadly not how it worked out. :(
Well next semester try to schedule on the first day you are allowed to and try to avoid that. Or switch to a different course or time for this semester if possible?
Morning classes are tough but if you can get a routine down they get easier
As a transfer student, I actually got day 0 registration during my orientation in March. It was just a class I needed and this is the only section of this class offered this semester. It's a little ridiculous, actually. There are 138 students in this class.
Labs are almost always mandatory, and a lot of my lectures my freshman year we’re mandatory as well. It honestly just depends on the professor, a lot of my classes last semester required us to turn in written homework, so I had to go to class to get credit for the homework. This semester almost none of my classes are like that and I can just sit at home and teach myself. 200, 300, and 400 level classes are generally more chill.
MSE201?
Yeah. You in the class?
Yup.
The homework had almost nothing to do with the lecture. It's like a chemistry review except I never learned a lot of it in chemistry.
For real, the homework was on topics we never even covered and assumes you have a lot of chemistry knowledge.
greatly depend on the class. Most classes wont care if u miss (not a good practice though), some other like senior design, or some engineering lab where missing 1 day is a huge deal
When I was there (a decade ago) I found that the higher level the class was, the more likely they were to take attendance.
I do know that there are federal financial aid rules that have cracked down on students who accept finaid and then never show up to class, but my experience with that is at an entirely different kind of university.
it's on a case by case basis. it's easy points if you ask me
Piggybacking on this: a lot of professors only factor in attendance if you are right on the line between grades, like if you have an 88 or 89 and need a 90 for an A, or even 68 or 69 to a 70 (so it counts for your major....). Professors won’t give you that little bump if you never came to class.
I've had it so it's 5% the grade
I have a professor that has attendance/in class work as 27% of the grade which is pretty easy points imo
wow. what class?
I seem to recall some class or other taking attendance from time to time when I was there, but it was never a widespread official policy or anything. Are they really doing that now?
Might just be my luck or my department.