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Summer school for athletes

texdawg

My son starts summer school and football and the University of Arkansas on May 30th.

He is a high academic kid and will be a Finance major.

The football program schedules the players summer sessions for them.

My son’s schedule is:

Summer session 1: leisure in society

Summer session 2: musical theater appreciation

I couldn’t make up a more ridiculous schedule if I tried

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CigarDawg

Congratulations on your son becoming an SEC student-athlete. That schedule surely doesn't come as a surprise from the #176th-ranked national university though, does it? 😂

Dawgwired

https://forum.dawgnation.com/discussion/31644/summer-school-for-athletes

It sounds easy until the music professor makes him write a paper on some classical piece…now leisure in society I’d be interested to know what they talk about for 8 weeks. Being a student athlete there won’t be a whole lot of leisure time. 😂

donniem

https://forum.dawgnation.com/discussion/comment/688195#Comment_688195

What Arky has done is not at all unusual. Every school has teachers/courses that are easier than the average class at that school. Often times they are part of the liberal arts requirements for many different majors. OTOH, there can be real sticklers for teachers, even in musical theater appreciation. Even non-athlete students can find the "easy" courses. Nothing to see here. It is a period of adjustment, so why not take it gradually, as opposed to some ball breaker, like new developments in comprehensive field theory as a first course.

BarkingDawg

Sounds like the 70’s

texdawg

https://forum.dawgnation.com/discussion/comment/688195#Comment_688195

Actually didn’t think it was ranked that high

texdawg

https://forum.dawgnation.com/discussion/comment/688202#Comment_688202

I like the easing in part

Kasey

https://forum.dawgnation.com/discussion/comment/688209#Comment_688209

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Joe31

Congratulations to your son!!! I’ll be pulling for him

how2fish

@texdawg best of luck and congratulations. Hope he has great success in the classroom and on the field!

Baxleydawg

The bad thing about the football program using your electives in this way is that you don’t have the freedom to use them for something you actually may be interested in down the road.

Also good for easing you into campus, but puts you in a situation later where you are loaded down with hard classes.

CigarDawg

https://forum.dawgnation.com/discussion/comment/688202#Comment_688202

Believe, me, I understand. UGA had, and probalys still has, some of those courses as well. I took a semester course on first aid, which actually met some pre-req at the time, but it was basically an extended Red Cross course. They serve their purposes, but it is always fun to mock any cross-division rival, right? 😄

CigarDawg

https://forum.dawgnation.com/discussion/comment/688209#Comment_688209

In case it wasn't apparent, I was poking fun at U. of Arkansas, not your son. This is a big accomplishment for him and your whole family and I wish great things for the coming years.

philipsmith99

Congrats

DvilleDawg

I don't know about how easy the music appreciation class will be. My son dropped his class because the professor expected them to learn to read music and they would have to identify songs based on a few bars for the tests.

philipsmith99

https://forum.dawgnation.com/discussion/comment/688236#Comment_688236

Wish I would have learned to read music, 1 of many. I had to waste my time in French class, teacher just did not appreciate my southern drawl.