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The school I went to had similar but more insane policies * I frequently took computer science graduate courses and received only undergrad. credit because the
by sidewndr46 4y ago
The school I went to had similar but more insane policies
* I frequently took computer science graduate courses and received only undergrad. credit because they could not offer the undergrad course
* Other majors were default prohibited from taking computer science courses under the guise of a shortage of places in classes. Even when those majors required a computer science course to graduate
I would like to point out that 300 and 400 level courses in the CS program usually had no more than 8 students. I distinctly remember meeting in a closet for one of my classes, because we had so few students they couldn't justify giving us a classroom.
Contrast that with the math department where I wanted to take some courses in parallel rather than serial. After a short conversation with the professor he said "ok sure, seems alright to me".
- bionsystem 4y agoWhy do you guys think such things happen ?
- KRAKRISMOTT 4y agoAcademia being inelastic and refusing to adapt in the face of market forces.
- whatshisface 4y agoStudents aren't the business most universities think they are in.
- pitterpatter 4y agoMy guess is they wanted you to pay the higher CS tuition to take the CS classes. Math departments also tend to be a lot more lax in my experience. Case in point: I got sign-off to take a 300-level pure math class without its 300-level prereq. As well as just replace one required course for another to graduate.
- jollyllama 4y agoOther majors were default prohibited from taking computer science courses under the guise of a shortage of places in classes. Even when those majors required a computer science course to graduate I went to an institution that did the opposite; seats were reserved for non-cs majors despite a shortage of sections. This resulted in CS undergrads waiting for courses just so they could graduate. It was frustrating because it felt like the department was taking care of outsiders over its own.
- andrewf 4y agoI might be jumping to conclusions, but orgs which value revenue often prioritize new customers over existing (perhaps captive) customers.
- brightball 4y agoPart of that is because “average class size” is used in metrics for the university ranking systems and every university out there wants to game those rankings.