Assignment #3

Crashed Course

 Arizona State University is to offer more short classes. A crash course of a semester. Many fear it, some recommend it.  But ASU is not the only campus to do this. Both Grand Canyon University and Glendale Community College offer these classes. To me I believe it is excellent for students to have a choice. I currently have two of my close friends, Amber and Emela, attending GCU and are both taking these short classes. From what they tell me they like how they only have to focus on 2 to 3 classes at a time and because it is half the time, one semester is 5 to 6 classes.But having jumped right into this style classes, both have never experienced a full "normal" course of college. But when hearing of my "normal" classes in college, Amber stated, "I think I would prefer to take the short semester classes because even though they are

compact I only have to worry about a few at a time, instead of taking four to five at one time and trying to keep up with all of them." In some ways this is something that I might prefer as well. I have heard many talk of how a shorter course and a faster graduation will make the students from college less ready for the"real" workforce then the regular set of students. I disagree. The schooling process for a lot of colleges is not what it needs to be. The students coming out of the short classes should be the same amount of unprepared as the other students. Although the crash course semester is getting a larger amount of classes done in a shorter amount of time, it does not mean it is a shorter amount of school hours worked.  Each person should know which would be better for them and whether or not they can handle it. To each their own.