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DU has a fantastic international studies program. All of my professors have been a lot of fun, and have all made efforts to get to know me. Some professors will even invite classes to dinner at their houses. Even in larger lecture-based, university-required classes, participation is highly encouraged. DU runs on a trimester/quarter system, meaning that you get to pick classes three times instead of two, allowing for a greater variety each year. While not all DU students could be described as intellectual, it certainly isn't hard to come by those who enjoy intellectual conversation. Most often, these students are in the honors program or another living and learning community. The director of our honors program is awesome, and British to boot.

Yes, things in our classes are very personable. I enjoy my Chinese class very much. My least favorite class in my Natural Sciences class because I hate science. All of my classes are very small in size. Students study very much since DU is pretty demanding. Yes, class participation is important in most classes. Yes, I believe DU students have very intellectual conversations outside of class sometimes. Also, students are quite competitive at times. I am an International Business major. I don't spend any time with professors outside of class. Sometimes I think that we are given busy work as students and that we are "learning for its own sake," but I am sure that some much of the information that I am given will help me in my future life.

So far the biggest class I have had has been 75 students and still the professor knew everyones name. The school is very challenging but the quarter system makes it manageable because you are only in a class for ten weeks. The learning undertaken at the university is innovative, we are learning things to help us in the future not the past.

I only have 2 professors that know my name because they are very small classes. A lot of the general classes are big, but never huge. Class participation is great. There are geniuses in some of my classes. The students can be quite competitive, but there are also those who don't care or have the money to pay someone to do homework for them. There are some really cool unique classes, like next quarter I am taking "paranormal phenomena" and "international mobsters". The international studies department is great. People in this dept tend to be much more open minded and less conservative than the other departments. I have spent time outside of class with one professor.

All of my professors know my my name! Even in my bigger lecture class of about 75! It is a great feeling to know that teachers know you by name! Class participation is very common, in fact it is required and it is a good thing! I am majoring in sociology and I love it. My freshman seminar teacher also happens to be teaching two of my sociology classes next quarter! He is a great teacher and makes learning easy! I think that getting a degree at DU gives you a VERY well-rounded education, seeing as how you have to take at least one class in almost every subject. I think that the requirements at DU promote learning for its own sake, but obviously prepare you for getting a job!

I think teachers are wonderful, and very well qualified, and interested in what they are teaching. most teachers know who i am class participation is not very high, and can sometimes be frowned upon, as in other students are annoyed when you participate one of the best classes i have taken was on latin american dependency i major in biology and spanish, there are many classes, but sometimes it can be difficult to get into all the classes, and i wish there were more research opportunities, and contact with advisors students are competitive in they want to do well, but also supportive, and hope that other people do well as well i would like the opportunity to spend time with professors outside of class i think the academic requirements are fair there is a mix of job focused learning and learning for its own sake. job focussed learning is especially common in the business school

Academics are good depending on your major. The business school is awesome and everyone is there to help you succeed. Political science is not so good. They don't offer many classes and aren't very helpful. The only thing I have a real issue with is that they make you take three quarters of science with a lab which seems a little much to me.

The small class sizes help to make students accountable for the course material and to allow more people to participate in class discussion than would at a bigger school. The school is very business oriented, and as such, the Gender and Women's Studies Department, in which I am a student, is a joke. If you are interested in Gender and Women's Studies, I would strongly recommend that you consider a different college.

Academics are great. Professors are awesome and yes we talk outside of class.

I just declared my major so I don't have a good insight into communication with each department, however, you will discover that all the professors are extremely helpful and have amazing backgrounds in their area of teaching. They are passionate about teaching and are always available to talk to and for questions. The campus runs mainly off of wireless internet which makes getting grades, information, and class schedules or assignments extremely easy, and also makes communication with professors and classmates no problem. Email will become your favorite means of communication with the campus. Students are very interested in their academics and work hard, but they also play hard. They get their work done when it needs to get done and then they hang out around campus or in downtown Denver, by using the lightrail system that runs on the north side of campus. DU's education gives each student a very well rounded experience, and enables each student to leave with unlimited options.