Anyone here enrolled in the course for the fall? I am looking for someone to drop that does not really need it so if you can let me know

http://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/packman/G310.html

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4/6/2010 11:39:22 AM

lol.

4/6/2010 11:43:52 AM

?

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4/6/2010 11:47:12 AM

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"Curriculum: Readings and discussions from Morford and Lenardon, daily. Quizzes at intervals of approximately two weeks. Occasional short essays. A final examination. Attendance: In accordance with the regulations of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, unexcused absences in excess of three will result in the deduction of one point each from the final course mark. "

Thought you wanted classes where you didn't have to go, didn't have to do any work, and they'd just give you an A at the end?

Troll is Trolling?

4/6/2010 6:05:42 PM

I believe it is still the most bearable out of all classes that fulfills the Arts & Letters GEP requirement and they rarely ever offer it, so I don't mind if I have to do more work than I prefer. Plus, the classes I want for easy A's are all for Free Electives which I will take my last semester for a GPA boost and I will probably want relaxing courses at that time.

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4/6/2010 6:28:22 PM

study hall poster of the semester for sure

i have spots 1-3 on the wait list...i am selling them for 50 bucks a pop

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4/6/2010 6:58:32 PM

Haha, the wait list capacity is 0 it has a blue square and says Closed. I guess the class is so special they don't even allow a wait list for it?

What I should have done was pay a Senior 10 dollars to enroll in the class early to save a seat and then have them drop it when I was able to enroll so I can enroll right away.

4/6/2010 7:19:03 PM

That class is so awesome. I very highly recommend it (if you are interested in the subject matter). Professor Packman is great, the materiall covered is fun. But be forewarned that she is a low talker, so you want to sit in one of the front two rows for sure.

Sometimes when I wanted a class I couldn't get into in the past, I'd sign up for a back up class that would work if I needed it, but then go to the class I wanted on the first day, and at the end of class see if the professor can help me get into the class if there are still seats physically open. Often the number of seats physically open exceeds the class restrictions. And if you sit through a whole class and participate, the first day is usually short anyways, you can usually get in a professors good graces.

These days, in grad school, I don't have to deal with that any more, but during undergrad at State that was usually a pretty solid method.

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4/6/2010 7:37:00 PM

Yeah I saw your topic about it when I searched. I might do what you said since I already enrolled in my backup which is Christianity. But also I think they might not have a wait list because there are only physically 35 seats in the room, so they don't want anyone on the wait list showing up on the first day because they don't have enough seats. Its also possible some people may drop after the first day and I will just monitor MyPack Portal. And the instructor is Staff and not Packman?

There is a similar class called GRK 320 Greek Tragedy in Translation which I don't know if you have taken, but its offered when they don't have 310. I'll probably take it next spring as a literature course.

http://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/packman/320.html

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4/6/2010 8:01:37 PM

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"i have spots 1-3 on the wait list...i am selling them for 50 bucks a pop "

When registration opened for honors, I used to always register for the 2 most popular honors classes that both filled up within 10 mins... then I'd drop em' after the wait list was dropped so people I know that were too big of slacker to wake up to register could add em.

But I guess registering to turn a profit works if it floats your boat

Oh btw, I have spots 4 and 5, and I'll sell em for 45 each.

4/6/2010 9:58:05 PM

Dr Sosower (sp) used to teach those sorts of classes. If Packman had been teaching it back then I probably would have taken it. I did an ancient greek language course with Dr Sosower and he was okay, although Packman I really liked. Since Dr Sosower passed away recently Packman is doing a lot of his old classes. But that class, with Dr Packman, since you are only studying it in English, I would have absolutely taken that class. If it is listed as staff, it will probably be Packman, but NCSU's classics dept (ancient latin/greek) is small and I don't think they have anyone else to do it (unless they pulled over an ancient history professor like Sack, Deterville, or Parker or maybe grab a grad student from UNC or Duke to teach it - in which case a friend of mine who is a grad student at UNC might get to teach it).

4/7/2010 10:40:09 PM