veyda 765 Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 hi! so as i'm watching "My Love from Another Star" i started to wonder about other school systems, specifically korea of course..haha anyway i was wondering, in US( or at least where i am), University professors have "Office Hours" an allotted time when students can go to their Professor's or TA's office and ask them question like help on understanding a concept or writing a paper. Do other university professors around the world do this too? what's your school system like? do you have Quarter's or semesters? when i register for a class, apart from the twice or three times a week lecture, there is also a 1 hour discussion section once a week, you have this too?? feel free to add/ask anything, i'm curious to know what your school (university, college, Jr. College etc.) is like =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junglove 4,071 Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 nevermind I thought you were asking what university we go to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stargazer 3,343 Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Semester based All professors offer office hours but if I want real answers it better to talk to the TA Some of my course offer discussion sections. Some don't. It just depends on the nature of it Edit: Opps I forgot to say I'm in a Canadian University. We also get homework in between midterms and finals. Some courses give out more assignments some don't Right now I have 2 courses where I have to hand in weekly assignments, 1 course where I have to finish 3 big projects, 1 course where I have 2 assignments and one paper due and another one where I just have 3 midterms and a final Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawlaw 11,951 Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Nottingham Trent University, UK 3 terms. Autumn, Winter and Spring. Office hours become much more important during 3rd year, I took every opportunity I could to talk to my lecturers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denizen mars 5,911 Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 I'm in the US too, but discussion sections are only with some classes at my school- usually the larger ones. If it's a class of 30 or less we can simply discuss the reading in class anyway. And then not all my classes are lectures anyway...some are just discussion. Alas, most of the ones I'm taking this semester are more lecture-y. We go by a semester system at my school, but I know some in the US still have quarters. People who go to school at universities in other countries- do you have to write papers, do homework, etc.? My good friend on here from Italy never does any work for classes besides exams at the very end of term and it makes me wonder if the rest of y'all are getting off that easy (well...maybe if you hate exams it's not that easy, but still) XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dyke 270 Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Harvard University 5.0 gpaa 2400 sat score Over 20 ap class ive taken Got 5s on all of them Made an app that went viral Not Asian Cured a disease Raised over 1,000,000$ for the cookie club Started onehallyu Made kpop famous Most of my relatives were from harvard Nd thays how I got into harvard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinolover 3,610 Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 if you're also in the usa you dont need me to answer **waits for min to post his wikipedia based answers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veyda 765 Posted February 9, 2014 Author Share Posted February 9, 2014 I'm in the US too, but discussion sections are only with some classes at my school- usually the larger ones. If it's a class of 30 or less we can simply discuss the reading in class anyway. And then not all my classes are lectures anyway...some are just discussion. Alas, most of the ones I'm taking this semester are more lecture-y. We go by a semester system at my school, but I know some in the US still have quarters. People who go to school at universities in other countries- do you have to write papers, do homework, etc.? My good friend on here from Italy never does any work for classes besides exams at the very end of term and it makes me wonder if the rest of y'all are getting off that easy (well...maybe if you hate exams it's not that easy, but still) XD interesting~! that kinda awesome hahaha but then again having to do essay and have midterms kinda forces you to have to "study" or review the material learned so it helps when doing finals. which i like. would be nice if someone could provide an answer for this, i'd also like to know ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgl 5,919 Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 People who go to school at universities in other countries- do you have to write papers, do homework, etc.? My good friend on here from Italy never does any work for classes besides exams at the very end of term and it makes me wonder if the rest of y'all are getting off that easy (well...maybe if you hate exams it's not that easy, but still) XD I'm studying Computer Sciences and we have a lot of tests, mini tests, weekly homework and presentations, group and solo projects, among other things. I do hear about people here that go on Erasmus to Italy and they don't do much there lol. I also feel it depends on what you are studying, since some majors are more exam focused, while others have a lot of continuous evaluation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaraSiorai 525 Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 I'm in an Irish university~ It's semester based. Our lecturers have office hours but I think most are too intimidated to use them. We sign up for tutorials for most modules. What you do in them depends on the subject. Some are discussion based but most of mine revolve around correcting work and solving problems assigned by the lecturer. We usually have in-lecture midterm exams, generally done through multiple choice. I have weekly homework for some things, online tests for others and then some have big assignments. I'm doing a very business focused degree so I don't have many essays but I know people who do subjects like English and History and they have tonnes of essays every semester. We don't really experiment with subjects the way you seem to in America. Here, we either enter into very specific degrees with very strict course outlines or you can do an Arts degree where you do three subjects in first year and continue two for the rest of college. The major/minor thing isn't really a thing here with very few exceptions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloupsidou 2,047 Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Yes but I rarely go cuz I don't have the time to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awolfska 950 Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 I go to a Canadian uni. We also have office hours. Our academic year is split into two 4-month semesters: Sept-Dec and Jan-Apr. For the discussion section, some courses have it while some do not; we call such sessions "tutorials", which are often led by TAs. Some of our tutorials are for help on understanding the content or to guide us in an assignment, while others will give us a quiz that will count for a small portion of our mark. The first kind of tutorial is usually optional (to attend), while the second kind would be mandatory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2501 75 Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allegra 491 Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 I'm studying Computer Sciences and we have a lot of tests, mini tests, weekly homework and presentations, group and solo projects, among other things. I do hear about people here that go on Erasmus to Italy and they don't do much there lol. I also feel it depends on what you are studying, since some majors are more exam focused, while others have a lot of continuous evaluation. You do Computer Science?! I'll be doing that alongside Maths come October. I know my university does Erasmus as well; I just need to get the grades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgl 5,919 Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 You do Computer Science?! I'll be doing that alongside Maths come October. I know my university does Erasmus as well; I just need to get the grades. That's great! You'll probably be one of the very few girls doing it though. If you can you should really do it. Unfortunately I couldn't afford leaving my job at the time so I couldn't go, but friends of mine that did it said it was one of their best experiences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blanc_imc 2,338 Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 - I'm a student in France and I'm studying English. - I have about 17 hours of class a week. - I have classes in common with everyone but I have to choose two courses that have nothing to do with English to have enough ECTS/credits/whatever you call them in your country. - Two semesters. - Not a lot of office hours but a lot of email conversations. - A lot of mandatory classes, can't really ditch any class except for those that take place in amphitheaters, but it happens like two hours a week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosetty 1,342 Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 I'm in an Irish university~ It's semester based. Our lecturers have office hours but I think most are too intimidated to use them. We sign up for tutorials for most modules. What you do in them depends on the subject. Some are discussion based but most of mine revolve around correcting work and solving problems assigned by the lecturer. We usually have in-lecture midterm exams, generally done through multiple choice. I have weekly homework for some things, online tests for others and then some have big assignments. I'm doing a very business focused degree so I don't have many essays but I know people who do subjects like English and History and they have tonnes of essays every semester. We don't really experiment with subjects the way you seem to in America. Here, we either enter into very specific degrees with very strict course outlines or you can do an Arts degree where you do three subjects in first year and continue two for the rest of college. The major/minor thing isn't really a thing here with very few exceptions. All of this except Im in Science and have 3 hrs of labs every 2nd week. what is this im seeing so many people from here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9 and 1/2 weeks with KK 427 Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 i think that the biggest difference between universitates in here and many other countries is that studying here is free, when you decide to study during week days we also have semester system and about 3,5 months of vacation but it's hard to write about time when you can reach professors, number of class hours or homework since it depends on university, faculty and even the particular major that you choose to study Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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