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Communications requirements are BS

cassie1013
edited January 2008 in General
They are so selective about what second year Cmns. classes are requirements, and it's really ridiculous when it comes to enrollment. For example, for your "media and culture" credit, you only have to take 1 of 5 options, but for the "technology" credit, there's TWO options...both of which are FULL and now I'm 35th on the waiting list? Woo hoo.

If these are requirements, there should be other alternatives. These kinds of things will make me start falling behind and I don't want to be at SFU longer then 5 years! Summer school it is, I guess.

Comments

  • Student0667
    edited November 2007
    Sorry to hear about your situation. However, it is only November right now and you can bet that people will be dropping courses in December.
  • nicole
    edited November 2007
    I'm just a little frustrated with the Applied Sciences choices for a CMNS major.
    Looks like I'll be taking a REM course this semester. Fantastic.
  • Cinnamon
    edited November 2007
    It has been a pretty bad enrollment for people in Communications because courses were full by the middle of the last week. I know a lot of people who can't do their 200 level requirements because they're all full.
  • cassie1013
    edited November 2007
    I'm so frusterated I'm thinking about ditching and moving to Toronto LOL. I'm applying to York and Ryerson....I refuse to be at university for 6 years!
  • baby e
    edited November 2007
    Im a Communication major and Im gonna be done my degree in two semesters, which is exactly 4 years :)

    We all have to take courses that we dont want to, thats the way it works. So just suck it up and do it. I hated having to take the technology course....it was a complete waste of time, but since i want the degree, i did the course. Im in a 3rd year Communication course right now and i hate it so much. I cant wait til im done uni soon!
  • cassie1013
    edited November 2007
    I want to take them - but I don't feel like waiting around so I can. I'll see what happens. It's too hard to get into the freakin' classes, lol.
  • nicole
    edited January 2008
    This may be a really dumb question, but I'm trying to figure out the whole quantitative requirements thing...
    So apparently for a CMNS major you're supposed to have two Q courses, correct? So 260 would qualify for that...but where is another Q course? I'm looking on the outlines and that's the only one listed. Can it be an external quantitative course?
  • Student0667
    edited January 2008
    nicole;21421 said:
    This may be a really dumb question, but I'm trying to figure out the whole quantitative requirements thing...
    You seem to have quite a bit of difficulty understand the whole WQB business. Want to schedule a meeting with TalkSFU's unofficial auxiliary Academic Advisor: Student0667?
    So apparently for a CMNS major you're supposed to have two Q courses, correct? So 260 would qualify for that...but where is another Q course? I'm looking on the outlines and that's the only one listed.
    Not just CMNS, everybody accepted after Fall 2006 has to deal with WQB.
    Can it be an external quantitative course?
    Of course, it is not like an English course can be quantitative for English major.

    However, don't you communication boys and girls have a course called CMNS 363-6: Approaches to Media and Audience Research?
    Cassie1013 said:
    I'm so frusterated I'm thinking about ditching and moving to Toronto LOL. I'm applying to York and Ryerson....I refuse to be at university for 6 years!
    That's the spirit! Mind throwing some dirt and mud at us once you are there?
  • nicole
    edited January 2008
    I'm slowly trying to figure things out, but thank you.
    The wording threw me off a little bit, that's why I had some difficulty. The W requirements specifically state that it has to be within the discipline, so I assumed the Q did as well. Wasn't sure if the same requirements apply to all disciplines.

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