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Academics are pretty competitive at CC. Everyone coming to the college did really well in high school so that mentality comes with people. The professors are really helpful and understanding overall. They will help you out if you ask them. I think a lot of the learning at CC is geared towards learning for learning's sake, although some of the less 'liberal art's experience' departments are more practical for finding a job after college.

Professors know and remember you for the most part, as long as you make yourself known to them. The romance language department here isn't so great but I like the art department and we have a really good geology department. I like being able to take classes in any field in spite of having a different major. The art department is fairly conceptually oriented and lacks digital art/graphic design. The academic requirements here are pretty flexible and easy to fulfill. I never felt like my learning was job oriented, although I never took a class in Econ, Political Science, or most science departments.

The academics at Colorado College are everything you would want and more! We have this thing called the Block Plan, where we take one class at a time for 3 and a half weeks from 9am- noon Monday through Friday. During these weeks you become extremely close to your professor and call them by their first name. I have not yet met a professor that isn't willing to help you at any hour of the day. Class participation is key! Everyone is expected to participate in class and it only adds to your learning experience. Everyone comes from different cultures and backgrounds and it is always interesting to see what they have to offer to the class. Before coming to CC, I never knew that students could have intellectual conversations outside of class. I remember the first week I was here, we were walking to a party and were talking about community service and education in Africa. It amazed me! Colorado College is a great place to be if you have many interests and are not sure what you want to do. It is so easy to take a variety of classes and met all of your educational needs.

Classes are limited to 25 students, and many don't fill up at all. Being a Geology major at CC is great. With the block plan there's only one class at a time, so you can go on lots of field trips without any interference. I just went on a two week trip to do mapping in Montana, Idaho , and Utah. It was great and there were only 4 students, which is not uncommon in upper level Geology classes.

The block plan is hard though most don't think so if your not one it but you try it for a week. And sciences man it's way fun but time consuming and life consuming.

prefessors know EVERYONE;s name. our classes have a max of 25 students in them and the teacher-student relationship is priceless and intimate. my favorite class is one that takes place in chile. the block plan allows for a much broader range in field trips! :) students study all the time. a day on the block plan is (supposedly) equivalent to a week in regular classes. therefore, it is easy for most students to study most of the day. it is possible to not study, as i only put 30-60 minutes a day towards my school work. the competitiveness of our school is missing. a scattered bunch care about being the best, but we are too lazy/chill/high to really care. i miss having very competitive friends. professors are ALWAYS available outside of class. almost every prof i have had makes every single effort to make sure you succeed. they offer to teach you one on one, study for tests, and even just relax and talk about the subject. our education is definitely geared towards learning for its own sake. we are required to take a class in each of the core areas (english, math, science, history) as well as a foreign language.

All professors know their students names and some relationships get really deep. I definitely look up to some of my professors as mentors and I'm almost scared to talk to some of them because I'm in such awe at times. My favorite class was abnormal psychology. It was so interesting, the teacher was the head of the department (and for good reason), she was simply amazing, so much enthusiasm. We not only learned about such interesting disorders but we actually had people with schizophrenia, depression and gender identity disorder come into our class and talk to us. And we took a field trip to the Pueblo State mental hospital. I also really, well not enjoyed, but got a whole lot from Neuroscience. It just pushed me harder than I've ever been pushed before and made me feel so accomplished and proud. Plus it was super interesting and it was the first time I've ever realized that many of my teachers are working just as hard as I am on the class, if not harder.

One of the best parts about Colorado College s the academics. You develop incredible relationships with your professors and fellow class mates through class discussions and after class office hours. I don't find students to be competitive with each other, but I have never met such a self motivated and driven group of people. I am constantly awed by those I live an work with.

I am an economics major, so this is the department I am most familiar with. The professors I have had are all pretty good. The importance of class participation varies. The small class sizes offer good communication and interaction among people in class. With the block plan the academics can be intense.

The classes here are difficult (very few easy-A classes) but the professors are very helpful and the block plan make scheduling your time easier. Field classes are great because there's a large focus on hands-on, on-site, learning.

I love learning on the block plan. While you're wholeheartedly focusing on your one class, everyone else is doing the same and the conversations that abound allow students to engage with each other with levels of intellect that are not found on many campuses. Areas of conversation that employ perspectives from a number of different disciplines encourage students to lend their unique voices, based on their current class, to conversations that otherwise may be dominated by students with similar academic backgrounds. Not only do professors know your name, they know your nickname because they gave it to you. There are plenty of opportunities to get to know professors inside and outside the classroom. One way is field trips, of which there are PLENTY. Whether it's to CC's Baca campus located at the foot of the Sangre De Cristo mountain range in the San Luis Valley, Yellowstone National Park, or to Chile to name a few - field trips are an amazingly unique and irreplaceable advantage of going to school on the block plan. Beyond the academic experience, professors are accessible through extracurricular involvement as organizational advisors which provides an intimate setting in which to get to know them. For example, the CC Farm advisor, Miro Kummel, has had farm club members over to his home for potluck dinners too many times to count. There we get to meet his family, play with his kids, help prepare meals, and chat in his garden. The feeling of comraderie between professors and students extends far outside the walls of the academic buildings and far beyond the day of graduation.

great small classes. professors always learn names within first few days. challenging academics. must work quickly on the block plan.

Professors will just about ALWAYS know your name because classes are capped at 25 and often you will be under the max class size. I really enjoy the classes in the drama and economic departments. Class participation is generally encouraged, but isn't 100{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} necessary if you're introverted. As for competitiveness, it all depends and can be if you want it to be. The drama department is great and you can find a show to audition for just about every block because even if you don't do the department show, there is the student run Theatre Workshop which happens in the other blocks.

CC is on the block plan which affects how different classes are taught. Science classes can be very stressful on the block plan because you have to devote a lot more time that for the average english class. During my Intro to Psychology class I had very little free time, yet it was my favorite class this year. Even though the work is demanding, you feel extremely accomplished after the 3 and 1/2 weeks.

Most professors are really great. The block system is really fun and definitely works well with my constant procrastination.

biology is awesome. physics sucks. geppert and showalter are awesome professors. take a german film class. they are awesome. some classes are really hard, some take less effort. your workload will depend on what you want to do and how much your class demands. some students are competitive but most are pretty chill. make friends with a professor. they can write you recommendations.

All of my professors in all three years have known my first and last name. The block plan isn't great for writing good papers. Student's aren't overtly competitive so you can choose if you yourself will or won't respond to competition when it arises.

THE BLOCK PLAN! rockin. With this plan my profs know me, i've had profs from freshman year still saying hi to me. My fav class was a class about J.R.R. Tolkien and all of his works, wow. My least favorite might have to be organic chemistry, eww. I am a biology major which is a very popular major at CC. The biology department is really nice, the only problem is when you try to make your own major. In the other departments if you have good reasoning and can support a new major within a department you can do that major, but in the biology department you have to major in biology, but you can focus on plants or animals. I've found that CC focuses on learning as much as possible more than getting a job. Most students are successful after CC because of its reputation, but for the most part the profs care more about how much you learn than how it will help you get a job.

The block plan is the best thing that has ever happened to me. It gives me freedom to do what I want because I can take all the prereqs for one class in a semester instead of having to wait a couple semesters if the prereqs have prereqs as well. It allows me to skip the whole ladder and do what I want when I want. However, the block plan is not for the faint of heart. It is impossible to skip a class (although it is done) without missing the equivalent of a week of school from a non-block plan school. However, because of Colorado's dry atmosphere people do not get sick as often. What is good about not being able to skip a class, though, is that you are almost forced to learn the topic in-depth and that helps you later

The block plan is great, unless your planning on majoring in a science, in which case you must either be a genius or a robot.