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Queries related to completing coursework for college or graduate school.

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I have taught as a graduate student and postdoc pre-COVID and as a postdoc and an assistant professor post-COVID; the difference has been stark. While during COVID class participation was difficult ...
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Job:Composition Instructor with 5/5 course load. Current cap: 24 students per course Administrators want to raise the cap from 24 to 30 students. Expectations are to have four essays per semester with ...
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I am an undergraduate student studying mathematics. My undergraduate school had a very small math department. My school didn’t offer as many courses as other big universities, and it didn’t offer ...
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I have recently moved to the US and I'm taking a graduate course about Fracture Mechanics (it is an undergraduate but I am taking it as a graduate course with a bit of extra work). The professor has ...
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My spouse has registered for a class which is required by the state license board to continue working in her field as a mathematics teacher. The bulk of the assignments will be self-reflections. She ...
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I'm curious what policies are common at US universities around whether and when undergraduates can take graduate-level courses. At previous institutions where I've studied and worked, it was possible ...
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Edited for privacy reasons, my apologies. This has been resolved and I am getting good grades now. No longer e-mailing her/not asking for advice helped my situation. The issue, I’m pretty sure, was ...
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Many universities in the US disallow double-counting courses for double-major students. Why is that? The course content is basically the same, right?
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I am about to enter the second year of a masters program in cognitive neuroscience at a well known school in the EU. I am originally from the united states and am hoping to continue my academic career ...
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I am senior in hs about to go to an r1 public (not top or anything) uni next year. I planned on majoring in math and econ, with the goal of getting a PhD in applied math (hopefully stochastic ...
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My understanding of the first-year calculus/linear algebra in the U.S. is that: students basically only need to memorize all kinds of math formulas instead of theories (even for theorems, for example ...
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I am currently teaching an undergraduate forensic photography course, but I'm having a difficult time this semester. Many of my students seem disengaged, and they expect me to simply give them the ...
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I copied a work from an uploaded copy and the references were incorrect. how do I get the correct reference for the work?
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There are a few questions here that discuss whether PhD GPA/grades matter (for example this, this, and this). But I haven't been able to find anything on whether other information on the transcript ...
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I'm a fourth year Ph.D candidate in the US studying Experimental Psychology at a regional college. I also got my Master's in Experimental Psychology back in December 2020. My Ph.D program accepted my ...
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