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Emerald
Seminars provide
additional credits
■ Weekend seminars offer
students a way to earn
credits while learning
about a range of topics
By Jessica Etheridge
for the Emerald
It’s no longer a secret. A large per
centage of University students have
discovered a way to earn extra cred
its over the weekend: seminars.
Seminars are pass/no pass and
can be taken for two days and for
up to two credits.
Most seminars take place on the
weekend. Typically they begin at
8 a.m., pause for a one-hour lunch
break, then continue until 5 p.m.
Students are usually given at least
a pair of 15-minute stretch breaks.
Participants are asked to take
hourly quizzes to verify their pres
ence. At the completion of the
seminar, students are then given
essay questions to complete.
For two-day seminars, students
are usually required to complete
twelve essay questions to deter
mine their pass/no pass status. The
one-day seminars require complet
ing six of twelve questions.
The journalism school’s assistant
dean for student services Greg Ker
ber, believes that seminars can be an
easy way for students to squeeze in
those last few credits as well as to be
a meaningful experience.
“It appears that many of the
seminar topics are timely and may
be relevant to students, either per
sonally, or in relation to situations
they may be writing about profes
sionally,” Kerber said.
Kerber’s only concern is that
students may potentially register
for more than 20 credits by includ
ing seminars. He encourages stu
dents to not rush graduation.
“If the substance of the seminar
or any other elective course out
side the University and major re
quirements is appropriate, that’s
what counts,” Kerber said.
Greg Hartman, a senior ac
counting major, participated in a
seminar about sexually transmit
ted diseases and summed up the
experience as being less than easy.
“All day in a classroom is a lit
tle harsh,” he said.
Most participants agreed that
the experience was well worth the
sacrifice, not only for the credit
but also for the overall experience.
Shannon Smith, a senior busi
ness major, admits to wanting, “a
quick, easy two credits.” Al
though, she, like many other semi
nar participants, walked away
with more than that.
Last spring, a seminar about al
cohol and drugs included a speak
er whose children were killed in a
car accident. Kinley Engdahl
Johnson, a junior journalism ma
jor, recalls the experience as “ex
tremely moving.”
“I went in wanting a credit and
came out with a whole new out
look on drinking,” Kinley said.
Many seminars are still available.
Several can be found in the sched
ule of classes under “Education”
with the subhead of “Substance
Abuse Prevention Program. ”
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