Class Schedule Spring 2011

Coming up for air and looking at local class schedules for Spring 2011.

Looks like a repeat of Fall 2010.

CSUS Spring 2011 Class Availability

1. CSC 132 - Computing Theory (3 Units)
   
   
• TR 4:00-5:15 p.m.; Meiliu Lu; 0/30 seats available
  
  
2. CSC 139 - Operating System Principles (3 Units)
   
   
• TR 3:00-4:15 p.m.; Du Zhang; 0/30 seats available
  
  
3. STAT 50 - Intro Probability+Stat (4 Units)

• MWF 10:00-10:50 a.m.; T 10:30-11:20 a.m.; Coskun Cetin; 0/30 seats available
  
  
• MWF 1:00-1:50 p.m.; T 1:30-2:20 p.m.; Coskun Cetin; 1/30 seats available

CSUS Open University cost per credit for Spring 2011 is $221/unit. So, either $663 or $884, for one semester-length class.

UC-Davis offers a similar program, called Open Campus. They charge $250/unit, so maybe $750 or $1,000 for one quarter-length class.

What About Matriculating As A Conditionally Classified Graduate Student?

• Costs rise 317% for one Spring 2011 three-credit class: $2,102 for 1-6 units. For 6.1+ units, it costs $3,251. CSUS requires 30 units to graduate, so, if working full time and taking two classes each semester: ($2,102 / 6) = $350 * 30 = $10,500
  
  
• Matriculation for Spring 2011 occurred last Fall; matriculation for Fall 2011 remains open until March 1, 2011.
  

What About Taking The Classes At UC-Davis And Transferring Them to CSUS?

• Neither UC-Davis nor Los Rios Community College offers a comparable course for STAT 50.
  
  
• Neither UC-Davis nor Los Rios Community College offers comparable courses for CSC 132 or CSC 139.

What About Graduate School At UC-Davis Instead?

• ...

What About Graduate School Via Accredited Online School?

• Possibly...

"I Would Like To Switch To Door Number Two, CSUS"

Signs of the times, I guess, of the state of higher education in California.

Due to ongoing class reductions, the CSUS computer science department has chosen to offer only one section of CSC 132, "Computing Theory". As an Open University student, I attended today's first class session anyway, with hopes of accommodation, buoyed somewhat by the CSUS class scheduler's modification of the class status from "Waitlist" to "Open".

I found the class full to standing room only. After class, the instructor rebuffed my request for consideration. First consideration goes to waitlisted, matriculated graduate students; second consideration goes to waitlisted, undergraduate students. Anything left goes to Open University students. I asked whether the class was consistently this full each semester, to which the instructor replied the department had declined to open a second section. She volunteered if I was a matriculated graduate or undergraduate student, I could get onto the list. I thanked her (sincerely) and left.

It is a tough choice, but fair.

Tomorrow, my second choice: CSC 139, "Operating System Principles".

I need CSC 132 as well as STAT 50 to complete the prerequisites for entering the CSUS graduate school program. Seeing as all three STAT 50 sections and the one CSC 132 section were full this semester, I am feeling some concern right now for Spring 2011.

UPDATE: Which means, back to Riverside 1002, heh. I have had nearly every class in that room.