Annette Discusses the Classroom Experience at Colgate University

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Today I'm going to be talking with you about the classroom experience at Colgate University, So let's go ahead and get right into it. So the classroom experiences such huge part of academics at any school. Arguably, I'd say it's such an important part of what you're Colgate experience will be like. I've kind of got over this in my last video, where I gave more general overview of what that time except cold later, like so you could definitely watch that video game or insight. Um, super discussion based, very participatory, just really allow you to explore different areas of study and really customize the learning experience that you want to have while you still have requirements for your major and forge General ed requirements for you to graduate. There's still so much choice that you have in the crosses you want to take, and the professors want to take them with. There are some larger introductory courses that are more lecture based there, typically only reserved for more popular majors. I know intro to psychology was a big class that I had my first year, and there were maybe like 60 or 70 students in the class. All of the classes that I've taken have been smaller and discussion babies average class size that Colgate is 17 your 1st 2 years, you'll probably have about 17 to 20 students in your class on. Then by the time you got your junior and senior years, a lot of the classes will be smaller. I just took a class about Victorian fiction last semester ends. There were only about 13 students in the class, and this really allows for discussion and participation to come into play. These classes are a huge part of the liberal arts curriculum. At quality of this could be hard of your someone of a shy person like I am. The discussion these classes really allow for you to share different perspectives and being different insights from the fellow students. You're not having a professor lecture to you the whole class. There really is an emphasis on speaking with each other. If you're the ideas of other students, most of my classes, we tend to set the circle can all kind of seeing each other on and really participate the best we can. A student faculty ratio is 9 to 1, and this really allowed to you, too. Get to know your professors and form those in relationships that are super important to the learning experience. They're being taught by actual professors who typically have the highest degree in their field. You're not being taught by any teaching assistants. Professors really want to see you succeed, and they want to help you. Taking advantage of office hours is really something that will help you and your academic experience. You can go to them to ask any kind of question about an assignment, just even about anything outside of school there really just willing to talk with you about anything, be like a mentor for you, which is something that I've definitely benefited from advisers or super helpful, whether it's choosing classes for the next semester or answering questions about different topic. Everybody at Colgate really wants to see you succeed academically when thinking about the difference between high school classes at college classes, which might be something that you're wondering about as you're kind of going through your college research process. I would say the main difference is college courses are more rigorous, and there's just a difference in the type of work you're doing. Specifically, when I think back to my high school days, I know I kind of had a lot of busywork, a lot of homework that, um, I would be doing for each class with college, I found. Usually you'll have set amount of assignments per semester. You know, known advance like what those assignments are. Your one of your courses might only have, um, three papers that I got for your whole grade. It is a bit more high stakes where you have those three assignments that you kind of have to do really well on and put in a lot of work for to do well in the course. That's daily or weekly, and that really hasn't been the case at all for me at my time at Colgate. There is no emphasis on writing papers, especially for me as an English major, on that it's a really great way to really sharpen and home my writing skills by critical thinking, skills and analysis skills, which are all super important skills tohave and are all crucial to the liberal arts. So that was kind of an overview of the classroom experience. I hope you guys found this helpful and thanks for watching.