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400 level courses mean…….dum dum dum da dum….a 15 page paper on a very specific topic where your analytical and critical thinking skills will be showcased. Are you ready to rumble? 🙂
In the end it's really the specific areas of history where you'll do a lot of learning. While survey courses no doubt bring students the broad topics, more specific classes – and research papers on specific topics – will likely be of greater help to your learning, to your confidence, and to your ability to make headway in the field.
I have to do an 8-10 page paper comaparing Hindu and Christian creation stories and prayer rituals. A 15 page paper on a subject that highly interests me shouldn't be a huge problem.Bring it on!!
Ugh. For whatever reason I don't have much interest in certain non-Western topics (though I'm taking a class basically covering historic Chinese gardens this summer). I'm sure it will be easy enough to find materials on Hindu pray ritual/creation stories. If you do any kind of angle on pilgrimage sites, look to the Elephanta Island temple. Just a thought.
In my religion class this semester, we each had to write a 7 to 15 page paper on our religion. At the beginning of the semester I thought this would be a “cake walk”…not so easy, now that I've finished it.
Re upper div and grad level courses…IMHO:Only dif between undergrads and grads is that when the Prof. sez "Good Morning", the the grads write it down in their notes and the UG's answer back... ;D At least that was what my prof told our 100, 200, 300 level adv. phys geog class about 35 years ago (as I remember... or perhaps have made up ;))
Wally, makes perfect sense to me now that I've completed my first semester back after “xx” number of years away from school. And I'll keep that advice in the frontal lobe of my brain in the fall… ;D
Also, the graduate students who take the 400 level courses usually get an additional paper to write on top of the one everyone writes (and theirs has to be twice as long and twice as cited), plus additional readings that go beyond the survey level of the class. Plus any additional requirements the professor deems worthy of a graduate student may be squeezed in. 🙂
Also, the graduate students who take the 400 level courses usually get an additional paper to write on top of the one everyone writes (and theirs has to be twice as long and twice as cited), plus additional readings that go beyond the survey level of the class. Plus any additional requirements the professor deems worthy of a graduate student may be squeezed in. 🙂
True, for undergraduate classes taken by graduate students. I might be doing something like this this fall because there's an undergraduate class that looks interesting and isn't offered at the moment for graduate students. Extra reading, I think a longer paper, and meeting with the professor in addition to class. I have also been told that the graduate student may teach the class in the absence of the professor, but that would probably have to be worked out.
