Colorado State University-Fort Collins Top Questions

The academics at CSU make me feel like I am simply just regurgitating information. I do not feel like the academics expand my mind and make me think outside of the box. The one reason I love learning with other people is because you get to have your perspective heard as well as theirs. I feel like this doesn't happen a lot at CSU.

Many of the lower level classes are so big that unless you make an effort to really get to know the professors you will never have any idea who they are. As you continue on in your course of study, I feel that if you make that effort to get to know your prefessors, they will make the effort to get to know you as well. I feel that the campus has made it very easy and accessible to get involved with other students in your class for study sessions or to discuss class. My only road block I have met with the academics is that I did not register for math courses into my second semester sophmore year and now I have hit a crossroad where unless I finish math, I cannot continue on in my course of study. My best piece of advice would be to MEET WITH ADVISORS EVERY SEMESTER, begining FRESHMAN year to plan out your schedule in order to graduate on time.

Most of my professors know my name. I'm a sophomore so my class sizes are a little smaller. I don't really have a favorite class right now because I'm just taking my core classes. Once I get into my major, I'm sure I'll like going to class a lot more.

Most of them do not know my name. I have found most of my classes to be very interesting and i enjoy them, however, my geology class is quite boaring and is the hardest one for me to go to due to the way my professor teaches the class. class participation is common depends on the class. I would say that there are many intellectual converations outside of calss. i think that the academic requirements are great, it gives people a chance to explore other majors they might be interested in.

4/5 of my professors know my name this semester, but only 1/4 knew it last semester. It depends on the classes you take. In lectures they probably won't unless you talk to them in office hours. My favorite classes are my honors seminars-a really good option, because they are so interesting and discussion based. My least favorite class so far has been biology (second semester), cause it was a lot of memorization and my grade was solely based on 4 tests. CSU is about pushing yourself, no one’s going to do it for you.

I do not think that if I didn't make it such a huge deal that I would not know any of my teachers names. But because I want to become familiar with them, I make it a point.

like i said above, there are a lot of students that attend csu. most classes are lecture style and class sizes range from 100 -250. you truly are 1 in a million. the professors teach in a lecture style, the higher level the course, the more hands on experience you recieve. most professors offer office hours outside of class and have graduate TA's to help if they are not available. some students even form study groups outside of class. the students are very competative. everybody is striving to be the best, we all want to be successful. the academic requirments are achievable. for my particular major, the credits per semester are heavy, but taking more will let us graduate on time. i would like to see more classes geared towards our degree offered as freshman and sophmores. i understand that they want us to be well rounded people and therefore have us take humanities, but if we already declared a major, we should be taking classes for that and being that much closer to graduating on time.

My professors in my smaller classes know my name, but in my larger classes they don't. I still feel like they are very accessible and are very wiling to help me if I approach them. I think that overall, the academics here are challenging but appropriate. I have liked 99{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of my classes.

I am in a lot of lecture classes, so a lot of my teachers don't know my name. My favorite class is probably my computer class. I don't know about other students but I don't study as much as I should because there are so many distractions.

Academics vary. some people take things studies very seriously while others are just there for the partying. I havent had any classes that the instructor was horrible. My favorite class was equine disease management.