I'm going to take summer/fall courses this year. This will be my last two semesters of prerequisites and then I can apply for my school's nursing program! I'm going to crunch time and take both A&P I and II during the summer. I realize it'll be tough, but I have no choice. My A&P I course I will be taking at my local CC on-campus, and afterwards I'm transferring to another CC for A&P II (it'll provide me with additional points to enter the program if I attend their school for 15+ credit hours).
The problem is I have two options:
Take an A&P II course online or on campus.
This CC only has two professors that are teaching A&P for the summer semesters. The one that's on campus seems to have bad reviews on ratemyprofessor while the one online has good ones. I'm conflicted because I'm highly intimated taking an online A&P II course. It is already intimidating to me to be taking A&P at all this summer. How bad is an online A&P course?
Any advice? I really do like the classroom setting, however, with a bad professor it seems as though that would be ruined. Online classes I have taken before but nothing as complicated as A&P.
Anything would be helpful to read at this point. If you have any experiences with A&P online please let me know how that went!
If it helps, I'm in Dallas, TX, and the school for the A&P II course is at Trinity Valley Community College in Terrell.
** I forgot to mention that my nursing school does accept online A&P lecture and lab.
I'm starting A&P 1 online today through Portage Learning..... I've never taken an online class before but I have a strong background in self-directed learning (I was home schooled K-12) so I'm not terribly worried. I'd say if you have taken online classes before and done well in them, go with the online option because you can work at your own pace.
I have a quick question on this, since we're on the topic... is it realistic for me to try to get a chem, algebra, and bio review done while taking A&P? I'm currently spending 2 hours a day on chem and algebra right now and an extra 30-45 minutes or so just skimming a bio textbook and getting through about 25 pages/night. I work a 9-5 job on top of all this and like to carve out about 45 minutes in the evening to work out. How much time and effort did people who took A&P online have to put in per day? I've a sneaking suspicion I'm going to need to cut my gym time
emmjayy, BSN, RN
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I'm starting A&P 1 online today through Portage Learning..... I've never taken an online class before but I have a strong background in self-directed learning (I was home schooled K-12) so I'm not terribly worried. I'd say if you have taken online classes before and done well in them, go with the online option because you can work at your own pace.
I have a quick question on this, since we're on the topic... is it realistic for me to try to get a chem, algebra, and bio review done while taking A&P? I'm currently spending 2 hours a day on chem and algebra right now and an extra 30-45 minutes or so just skimming a bio textbook and getting through about 25 pages/night. I work a 9-5 job on top of all this and like to carve out about 45 minutes in the evening to work out. How much time and effort did people who took A&P online have to put in per day? I've a sneaking suspicion I'm going to need to cut my gym time