thebachellor
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- Mar 26, 2006
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I need some advice on my situation (briefly mentioned before in another thread):
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So i'm a senior currently. I picked my major fairly late in my academic career (basically when I was nearly a junior), and have been knocking down CSE course after CSE course in order to finish "on time". I initially though I'd have to take a whole extra year, but as it turns out... I could theoretically complete my major this year (so it would be "on time"). So I filled my schedule up with all the upper division CSE courses that I needed to take and all of them fit in my schedule except for one. This one particular course, a CSE "ethics" course that is only 1 credit, was actually one that I wanted to take last semester, but couldn't because it required a course that I was taking at THAT SAME semester as a pre-requisite.
I asked the teacher to manually add me to the class (since it its a damn ethics class and had nothing to do with programming... I don't even know why that pre-requisite is there), and this guy had no backbone and said even though he *could* have added me, he wanted approval of the department head . The department head ended up saying no, because he figured I wouldn't take all the upper division classes I am now (it would be "too much" in his eyes ), and that I should be aiming for splitting the remaining credits I needed to take in to 2 semesters (meaning this current semester, and an extra one). How about you let me do what I want to do, and now what you think I should do?
So now, here we are... Spring 2010. This is supposed to be my *last* semester, yet I am being held back by one measly credit. I e-mailed the department head asking if I could apply for graduation anyway despite missing this (in my eyes) non-necessary 1 credit course that I would have to spend an entire extra semester for, and this fool just ignored my e-mail (well I think he did... I e-mailed him Monday night and there has been no response yet... and the *deadline* to apply for graduation is this Friday).
What makes this situation even more interesting is that I spoke with him at the start of the Junior year; we were all required to before we registered for classes. There's this one requirement for our major that states we have to take an extra science course from a specific pool of science courses. I (just having chose this major at the time) had already taken 2 science courses and their corresponding labs (so, 8 credits) that cover the same exact material (actually, more) as one of the 4-credit courses in that specific pool. During the meeting he said that they'll use those courses to satisfy the requirement.
What i'm worried about is they'll (i'm assuming it will be a different person (s) looking at my transcript) look at my transcript and say: "well we can't substitute the courses and forgo the 1 credit". My belief is that once he said they were going to be substituted... from that point on it shouldn't be an issue anymore (in other words, they should only be concerned with the 1 credit). Of course, he can always said that he never said that (and even in hindsight, it's not exactly appropriate to tell him to sign a paper stating that he did say that that).
So I don't want to apply for graduation and get a response saying that not only do I have to complete the 1 credit, but also take the class that I (originally) was told I didn't have to take. If I just complete this semester and take the 1 credit next semester, I won't have to worry about that problem. I'm hoping for the possibility that they honor the department head's promise, and forgo the 1 credit.
What should I do?
NO CLIFFNOTES
So i'm a senior currently. I picked my major fairly late in my academic career (basically when I was nearly a junior), and have been knocking down CSE course after CSE course in order to finish "on time". I initially though I'd have to take a whole extra year, but as it turns out... I could theoretically complete my major this year (so it would be "on time"). So I filled my schedule up with all the upper division CSE courses that I needed to take and all of them fit in my schedule except for one. This one particular course, a CSE "ethics" course that is only 1 credit, was actually one that I wanted to take last semester, but couldn't because it required a course that I was taking at THAT SAME semester as a pre-requisite.
I asked the teacher to manually add me to the class (since it its a damn ethics class and had nothing to do with programming... I don't even know why that pre-requisite is there), and this guy had no backbone and said even though he *could* have added me, he wanted approval of the department head . The department head ended up saying no, because he figured I wouldn't take all the upper division classes I am now (it would be "too much" in his eyes ), and that I should be aiming for splitting the remaining credits I needed to take in to 2 semesters (meaning this current semester, and an extra one). How about you let me do what I want to do, and now what you think I should do?
So now, here we are... Spring 2010. This is supposed to be my *last* semester, yet I am being held back by one measly credit. I e-mailed the department head asking if I could apply for graduation anyway despite missing this (in my eyes) non-necessary 1 credit course that I would have to spend an entire extra semester for, and this fool just ignored my e-mail (well I think he did... I e-mailed him Monday night and there has been no response yet... and the *deadline* to apply for graduation is this Friday).
What makes this situation even more interesting is that I spoke with him at the start of the Junior year; we were all required to before we registered for classes. There's this one requirement for our major that states we have to take an extra science course from a specific pool of science courses. I (just having chose this major at the time) had already taken 2 science courses and their corresponding labs (so, 8 credits) that cover the same exact material (actually, more) as one of the 4-credit courses in that specific pool. During the meeting he said that they'll use those courses to satisfy the requirement.
What i'm worried about is they'll (i'm assuming it will be a different person (s) looking at my transcript) look at my transcript and say: "well we can't substitute the courses and forgo the 1 credit". My belief is that once he said they were going to be substituted... from that point on it shouldn't be an issue anymore (in other words, they should only be concerned with the 1 credit). Of course, he can always said that he never said that (and even in hindsight, it's not exactly appropriate to tell him to sign a paper stating that he did say that that).
So I don't want to apply for graduation and get a response saying that not only do I have to complete the 1 credit, but also take the class that I (originally) was told I didn't have to take. If I just complete this semester and take the 1 credit next semester, I won't have to worry about that problem. I'm hoping for the possibility that they honor the department head's promise, and forgo the 1 credit.
What should I do?
