2008 Woodie Awards
Course offerings for spring too limited
Letter to the editor
Amber Dillender
Issue date: 11/2/06 Section: Editorial
Dear editor:
It should have come as no surprise that UTC would yet again have a lack of courses available. There are 56 courses for English 122, but those that are in charge of other departments cannot ensure there are upper-level courses that correspond with the concentrations for each "available" major. Trying to find enough courses should not be so difficult because I am a double major, but it is. Both of my majors need courses which are related to international studies, but the lack of teachers and the lack of courses happens to be holding me back.
This is not the first time I have had issues. It is not that I am trying to take the least amount of courses by any means. I am currently taking 18 hours, which I came up with on my own.
I was hoping that this semester the university would get it right. I attend UTC using student loans, but in the end I am still paying for this education. I expect better services. I need to go through an exchange program to get enough courses so that I can graduate by the spring of 2008.
It seems that the university is not designed to have students on the four-year plan, but rather the five- or six-year plans. I am sure there are students that do not get their acts together or who change majors and therefore are here longer by choice.
I feel that as a student who has completely finished her core classes that I am being punished. It seems every year is the first year that UTC has been operating. The tuition and fees to attend UTC are raised every year, but what do the students get back in return? Air conditioners that don't work, toilets that leak, cabinets that need to be fixed and freezers that don't work. At least sometimes a new fridge replaces the run-down one.
As far as academics go, too few courses needed to complete a major are being offered. I am not talking about some class like Underwater Basket-weaving. Not that there is such a course, but it should not be so difficult for UTC to offer courses for the majors and those concentrations within those majors which the university offers.
If there are not enough professors, or classes will not be offered, let people know before they make the choices which lead them down the road I am on.
Amber Dillender
Sophomore
Chattanooga
It should have come as no surprise that UTC would yet again have a lack of courses available. There are 56 courses for English 122, but those that are in charge of other departments cannot ensure there are upper-level courses that correspond with the concentrations for each "available" major. Trying to find enough courses should not be so difficult because I am a double major, but it is. Both of my majors need courses which are related to international studies, but the lack of teachers and the lack of courses happens to be holding me back.
This is not the first time I have had issues. It is not that I am trying to take the least amount of courses by any means. I am currently taking 18 hours, which I came up with on my own.
I was hoping that this semester the university would get it right. I attend UTC using student loans, but in the end I am still paying for this education. I expect better services. I need to go through an exchange program to get enough courses so that I can graduate by the spring of 2008.
It seems that the university is not designed to have students on the four-year plan, but rather the five- or six-year plans. I am sure there are students that do not get their acts together or who change majors and therefore are here longer by choice.
I feel that as a student who has completely finished her core classes that I am being punished. It seems every year is the first year that UTC has been operating. The tuition and fees to attend UTC are raised every year, but what do the students get back in return? Air conditioners that don't work, toilets that leak, cabinets that need to be fixed and freezers that don't work. At least sometimes a new fridge replaces the run-down one.
As far as academics go, too few courses needed to complete a major are being offered. I am not talking about some class like Underwater Basket-weaving. Not that there is such a course, but it should not be so difficult for UTC to offer courses for the majors and those concentrations within those majors which the university offers.
If there are not enough professors, or classes will not be offered, let people know before they make the choices which lead them down the road I am on.
Amber Dillender
Sophomore
Chattanooga
