<p>In particular, the classes with a lecture and discussion.
Who do i get graded by, the lecturer or the discussion teacher? There are different instructors for each portion.</p>
<p>For the most part it’ll be the discusion teacher. They’re the one who will read your papers and grade the tests. The professor teaches the info in lecture, the TA or discussion leader goes over the info in discussion, expands on anything else that needs to be covered, collects assignments, etc.</p>
<p>Also have to ask, how come a lot of classes at USC only have a 2-hour “Lecture” section. (I’m guessing it is lecture+discussion in one).</p>
<p>I was at UCSD before and most classes were lecture and ta discussion. At community college , lecture+discussion is with the same instructor. Should I expect the USC “Lecture Only” courses to be like this? (at least for Marshall?)</p>
<p>I don’t know specifically for Marshall, but for all of the classes I’ve had, classes with only “Lecture” sections only had lectures. Discussions were always in “discussion” sections… some big classes like chemistry, biology, and physics are lecture only but they have supplemental instruction, with is basically like discussion. There just isn’t a time set in your schedule for it, but there are plenty of times offered so usually one will fit with your schedule.</p>
<p>So for Lecture+discussion classes, the grade in the course will be from the discussion teacher?</p>
<p>A unrelated question: Are there distinct advantages of taking writing-140+social issues class first semester of freshmen as opposed to taking two GE’s?</p>
<p>you have the advantage of getting it over with sooner and having the writing experience sooner. i’d say about 75% of people take it first semester and the other 25% take it second</p>
<p>BA theatre’s can’t take it first semester. We pretty much have to take our Cat V first semester. I’m pretty sure we take Writ 140 and Cat VI second semester.</p>
<p>In my math classes, which were all lecture and discussion, the homeworks were graded by the discussion TA and the tests were graded by the TA and the professor together. Final grades were given by the professor.</p>
<p>Much of who grades the assignments/tests depends on the amount of people in the class… since many intro classes are so big and there are multiple TAs the TAs do much of the grading. Sometimes the professors will look over test grades to normalize the grades between different TAs. Sometimes the professor will grade half of the stack of tests while a TA grades the other half. It all depends on what the professor wants to do. For my history GE, the professors never looked at any of our papers or tests, only our TAs. For an engineering class I had with around 40 people, the professor graded all of our homework and tests. For my general chemistry class, the lab TAs graded all of the tests and lab reports.</p>
<p>If you take writing 140 second semester, you will have to go through all of first semester hearing about the horrors of the class, and then finally take the class itself second semester (which might be horrible). Thus you might have a year full of dread. I advise taking it first semester to get it over with :)</p>
<p>quick question, for many of the writing 140, some discussion sections, there is not an assigned instructor. However, some have assigned instructors. Does usually one instructor teach the all the writing 140 lectures that are linked a specific social issues class? or are there more than one instructor for writing 140 for each social issues class?</p>
<p>There are many writing 140 instructors for each social issues class. Each writing class is only about 15-20 people I think… just really small. When I took writing 140, my instructor only taught 2 classes: one at 9am and one at 12pm, MWF. Also just to clarify, when registering for writing 140 isn’t there only a “lecture” section and a “lab” section? The “discussion” section is only for your social issues class.</p>
<p>what part of writ 140 is considered horrible?</p>
<p>Oh and random question:
I have 10 mins in between classes in taper hall and salvatori computer science. Do I have to rush or is it totally doable?
thanks</p>
<p>If you have really good time management, writing 140 isn’t too bad. Unfortunately many (like me) do not, and end up writing an essay in one night. (horrible idea.) If you’re the type that can write, say, a paragraph each day for an essay… then you will have spread out your work in the few weeks you have to write an essay. But I always tend to put off huge writing assignments because I just don’t have the motivation to start, since I feel like I have so much time left. 
Plus you have to do these (sometimes boring / useless) pre-writing activities that may or may not help you. The class also wants you to break out of your typical high school writing: no more 5 paragraph essays, which is difficult for some. There’s also the fact that mostly EVERYONE has to take writing 140, regardless of your major, and so those who hate writing essays (also me) have to take it. But if you like writing and don’t think essays are bad at all, it shouldn’t be too bad. :)</p>
<p>10 minutes SHOULD be okay from Taper to Salvatori, it just depends on whether or not you actually get out on time. You could probably leave early, or if your professor doesn’t care if you show up late to your class at Salvatori, that’s possible too. A bike might also help, but I tend to find that during those 10 minute breaks where many people are going to different classes the walkways are really crowded and bike traffic makes biking take the same amount of time as walking…</p>
<p>Not if you’re good at riding your bike ;)</p>
<p>How do seminars work? Are they just lectures once a week, or are there significant assignments and work that go along with it? in particular the global leadership seminars.</p>