"Liberty and Me" Update!

Rhet

God's blessing on all you do,

Bill

 

Welcome to the Liberty family. And if Jerry can convince all of us alumni to go for this expansion of the Lakin building there will likely be an explosion in the program coming soon. I received my request for funds in the mail yesterday. It looks like quite a project.

 

What kind of requirements do you have for undergraduate work?

I'm in my last semester at a regionally accredited Baptist College (religion major), so I could tell compare your requirements to the ones I've had.

 

Factoring in the fact that this is an online class, it sounds comparable to my undergraduate courses in time and effort requirements.

If this is a lower-division class, it is a moderately heavy load, probably more demanding than most. If this is an upper-division course, it is probably a moderate load.

 

==Is it the graduate level (seminary- MAR/MDiv)? I have a MA/R from Liberty and I maily used their distance learning program to earn it. So if you are talking about graduate level courses I took each of the courses you are talking about. Is it academic light? No. However, like any school, some courses are harder than others. I had some classes that really caused me to struggle and others that I seemed to float through. However in each of my classes I noticed that my grades were higher than the class average. So the classes that I found easy someone else found hard. I also noticed that classes I found easy were subject matters that I had done alot of personal reading/studying in.

It was the same way during my year at Southeastern, and it is the same way in my current MA program. Some teachers are harder than others, some classes are harder than others, some subjects are harder than others, and all of that can be subjective.

==To be honest that does not surprise me. It has been my personal experience, with Liberty and Southeastern, that some seminary courses are not as tough as they should be. In fact when I look over syllabuses from various seminaries I see the same thing over and over again. Now that I am in a MA program at a secular University I have noticed that (a) it is more demanding than both Liberty and Southeastern, (b) that like LU and SEBTS some courses/teachers are harder than others, and (c) all of that can be subjective. Also keep in mind that you and I have graduate degrees in these subjects, so some of the assignments may seem easy to you and myself. However to others those same assignments maybe very difficult. I do know, however, that Liberty's program helped me alot. In my current program my grades are still higher than the class average (and many of my classmates have undergraduate degrees in history!). So keep in mind that the level of difficulty can be somewhat subjective. However I will say there was one class I took at LU that was disappointingly easy (Doctrine of God). If I recall there were several major papers (etc) but I breezed right through that class. Maybe it was just me, I don't know.

Btw, I am doing a GA this semester and in the spring as well. The thing just landed on my doorstep. I did not seek it out, I did not apply, or anything like that. A professor approached me about it and I was offered the GA after one interview. I was also approached about a part-time teaching position (not a GA) in the school's English Language Institute. I was going to teach American History and Landmarks to Chinese students. However I had already accepted the other position, and a friend of mine who really needed a job had also been approached about that teaching position, so I turned it down and they gave the job to my friend. Talk about win, win! I made the right choice though, I don't think that teaching job would have been right for me. She has had to work at a very basic level since most of these kids know very little about American History, Landmarks, or culture. She is good at that because she has worked in the public school system for a few years. It is amazing how the Lord provides at every step and turn (Romans 8:28!). Not only for me but also for my friends and the students.

Just to let you know!
Martin

 

Rhet

You gotta make them earn that degree . . . make it hurt! They should be screeming "I quit!" when they read your syllabus . . .

:thumbs:

Your load sounds like about what a undergrad should be.

It was about what the 'load' was supposed to be on the only (graduate) internet class that I have taken - that was a debacle . . . and I never 'want' to take one again.

Some will be harder, and some will be at about your level of intensity.

God bless & congratulations!

Wayne

 

I am so glad to hear you are doing well Rhet. Teach em what they need to know and I know you will,then you will have done your best for them. God bless you and your work my brother.:1_grouphug: