ask lj: advice about classes
Aug. 21st, 2006 06:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
so: the Peralta Colleges courses i wanted are full, and while i could go to the first meeting and hope & beg to get let in if there's space...for a basic biology lab course, i'd bet that it's going to be full and stay that way. also, they start this week, and while i'm feeling mostly awake and human again, i'm cautious and stressed and way behind at work auuugh.
my current plan is to sign up for one of the UC Berkeley Extension courses. not a lab, sadly, because those are twice as expensive and also mostly full, but there are a few others that look interesting. they also start later (2.5-3 weeks from now) and are mostly higher-level, and cover material that would be good for me to know anyhow. i'll do the lab course at one of the close-by Peralta colleges in the spring.
i'm going to pick one & enroll tonight, but since i'm indecisive i figured i'd see if y'all had any insight, suggestions, or entirely off-topic rambling to offer.
[edit: not enrolling until tomorrow, since i'm waiting to hear what the training schedule is for doing hospice volunteer work this fall.]
options are:
. Developmental Biology, downtown Berkeley, Tuesdays 6:30-9:30pm
. General Anatomy, SF, Tuesdays 6:30-9:30pm
. Genetics, online or SF, Thursdays 6:30-9:45pm
. Cell Biology, SF, Saturdays 1:30-4:45pm
two cents?
my current plan is to sign up for one of the UC Berkeley Extension courses. not a lab, sadly, because those are twice as expensive and also mostly full, but there are a few others that look interesting. they also start later (2.5-3 weeks from now) and are mostly higher-level, and cover material that would be good for me to know anyhow. i'll do the lab course at one of the close-by Peralta colleges in the spring.
i'm going to pick one & enroll tonight, but since i'm indecisive i figured i'd see if y'all had any insight, suggestions, or entirely off-topic rambling to offer.
[edit: not enrolling until tomorrow, since i'm waiting to hear what the training schedule is for doing hospice volunteer work this fall.]
options are:
. Developmental Biology, downtown Berkeley, Tuesdays 6:30-9:30pm
. General Anatomy, SF, Tuesdays 6:30-9:30pm
. Genetics, online or SF, Thursdays 6:30-9:45pm
. Cell Biology, SF, Saturdays 1:30-4:45pm
two cents?
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Date: 2006-08-22 02:47 am (UTC)It would also be neat if this brought you over to the city every week or so, though you might end up kind of tired after 3 hours of class.
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Date: 2006-08-22 07:35 am (UTC)is cell biology or genetics a pre-req for dev bio? if it's vertebrate focused class, you can probably get by without too much genetics. you can get by without cell bio, too, but it might be harder... i TA'd the dev bio class here for a few years. we focused alot on experimental techniques and problem solving. i found students had an easier time of it if they've taken cell bio or had some lab experience. it's doable without, though.
i loved cell bio at MIT, but hated TAing it here. it can be really good when taught right so if the instructor seems lively, that might be the way to go for now... g'luck!
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