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Summer school for athletes
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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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? 😂
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. 😂
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.
Sounds like the 70’s
Actually didn’t think it was ranked that high
I like the easing in part
Congratulations to your son!!! I’ll be pulling for him
@texdawg best of luck and congratulations. Hope he has great success in the classroom and on the field!
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.
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? 😄
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.
Congrats
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.
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.