<p>regarzy, just a comment on the course load. You should realize that Hum 110 is equivalent to 1.5 courses (realistically, more like 2 courses): you have 6 class-hours per week, a ton of reading (as I recall it averaged a few hundred pages), and a lot of writing. So if you take 2 more standard classes you are up to what at most colleges would be 3.5-4 courses. I recall taking Hum 110, chem, and math my first semester, then adding an advanced chem class plus a lab (quant. analysis) second semester. That was about all I could handle!</p>
<p>At Reed many courses are two-semesters – year long. You take Hum 110 both semesters, for example. By the end of first year you’ve taken the equivalent of 3-4 courses in the classics. After first year, you have more flexibility but most students would take no more than 4 courses at a time. But there’s also the second year Hum series, which was run much like Hum 110 – 6 class hours – and used to be obligatory but is now optional, depending on the student’s major or interests. As for hours in class this varies in part depending on whether you have lab courses tied to your lectures. First year language courses meet for 4 or 5 hours per week (but count as 1 unit). And for example, if you take Bio 101/102 (a year long, 2-semester course), you would have 3 hours of class lecture, 1 hour of lab lecture, plus 4 hours of lab per week. This is a serious time sink: <a href=“http://64.233.167.104/u/Reed?q=cache:g5kaUQrFdcAJ:academic.reed.edu/biology/courses/BIO101/+class+schedule&hl=en&ie=UTF-8[/url]”>http://64.233.167.104/u/Reed?q=cache:g5kaUQrFdcAJ:academic.reed.edu/biology/courses/BIO101/+class+schedule&hl=en&ie=UTF-8</a></p>