Which pre reqs are easy and which are hard?

Nursing Students Texas (UTA)

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I have 5 pre-reqs to complete.

POLS 2311 Federal Government

POLS 2312 Texas State Government

HIST II 1312

PSYC 3310

A Fine Arts Class

Can anyone tell me which classes were easy and you could complete early. I also would like to know which classes were more challenging and should be taken alone.

What does everyone recommend for the easiest Fine Arts Class?

I have already had three semesters of both PSYC and HIST, I'm trying to get them to accept these classes, but we will see.

Anyone have suggestions for the easiest Nurse Credentials for credit for the Upper Division Nursing Electives?

I appreciate any and all suggestions. :sarcastic:

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Specializes in ICU.

I took all those classes at UTA.

The two POLS are easy. PSYC 3310 was each.

Art appreciation (the fine arts class I took) was OK except it required mandatory group work. The people I was assigned to were slackers. I still got an A but it was way more trouble than it should have been. Still wouldn't call it hard though.

HIST 1312 was brutal. HIST 1311, if you have to take it at UTA, is also brutal. It's not that underlying material is too difficult. Quite the opposite, I think the material itself could have been interesting if taken elsewhere. You can probably do a search for the history classes on here and get more details, but I would strongly advise against taking the HIST classes at uta. Take them at a local community college or whatever.

For the electives, get a nursing certification (like CCRN) if you can. That will take care of one. For the other, it's N3300 Cooperative Nursing Work Experience. You just journal every week and then write a paper on your experiences. It's busywork but nothing hard.

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Thanks...I really appreciate the feedback.

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I took history and poli sci....they both require lots of time. History was ok but there is lots of work involved. Got an A in both of them as they aren't difficult. History 1311 required a group project and in my opinion, group projects via online are hard because you lack the responsibility of having to see people face to face. In art now and so far, so good.

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Specializes in Psych ICU, addictions.

HIST 1312: IMO, not hard. However, it's very time consuming as it's a full history class condensed into 8 weeks, not a specially chopped-up version of history for RNs.

I remember when I took the class: a majority of the class spent the first 3 weeks complaining about the amount of work involved and were even abusive to the ACs. They kept threatening to tell the dean of the nursing problem about this class. The atmosphere got so violent that the profession finally had to put the smack-down on them.

He informed the class that a. it wasn't a nursing class so it'd do no good to complain to the nursing program, b. anyway, the dean of the nursing program was well aware of this class, c. the class had been approved by UTA's history department and has been taught this way for several YEARS, and d. people had to quit ******** and do the work or drop the class, otherwise they risked disciplinary action for continued abusive behavior towards instructional staff.

That was a memorable class.

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Specializes in Psych ICU, addictions.

POLS 2311 and 2312: Also not hard, also time consuming, also full courses condensed into 8 weeks and not special RN versions. Not as time consuming as HIST 1311/1312 though. Unlike the two histories where you can't work ahead nor can you catch up with late submissions if you fall behind, you can work ahead in the POLS, and I think you can turn assignments in late--albeit with penalty.

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POLS 2311 was easy and I literally just finished Art Appreciation two weeks ago and it was ridiculously easy. We had no group work in our class and the papers / projects were a breeze. Haven't taken any of the other classes you have listed, although I did take History 1311 and it was the hardest history class I've ever taken. I think I saw that its the same professor for 1312, so beware. The workload was waaaaaaaay too much for a freshman history class.

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Specializes in Psych ICU, addictions.
I took history and poli sci....they both require lots of time. History was ok but there is lots of work involved. Got an A in both of them as they aren't difficult. History 1311 required a group project and in my opinion, group projects via online are hard because you lack the responsibility of having to see people face to face. In art now and so far, so good.

The only issue I had with the group project was lack of participation. I was leader for that project. I left 6 people off of the final submission--with the instructor's full knowledge and blessing beforehand--because they either didn't submit work or didn't cite their sources, despite repeated messages and e-mails from me.

Fortunately, those who did submit were not responsible for doing the work of those who didn't.

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Does anyone remember the instructors name for Hist II 1312? The really hard instructor?

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