Colorado State University-Fort Collins Top Questions

Academically, I feel like CSU is good. Haha, my spanish teachers, or other small classes, and my advisor are probably the only teachers who know my name...well, acuatlly I guess my macroeconomics teacher knows my name now because I scored a perfect on a test, and she takes all the people who got perfects out to lunch, so she knows my name from that. Also in her favor, she goes around at the beginning of class and always tries to learn new peoples names. Many of the professors would like to know everybody's names, but it takes a few smaller classes or actual major classes before you might get that (assuming you don't put a lot of effort into it yourself, I don't, but if you do I'm sure they'd remember you if you went to their office hours or something). My favorite classes have been the classes for my major, human dimensions of natural resources (basically tourism and natural resource management). The teachers in my major are all pretty young and fun and they really make classes that don't always sound promising (i.e. parks and protected area management) an enjoyable class. There is a lot of participation in these classes cause everybody knows each other and the teacher and everybody feels pretty comfortable, but some classes are pretty quiet and the teacher just lectures. Thus, the class that was my least favorite was human development and family studies, or something like that, it was 8 in the morning MWF and boring as hell. You didn't get very many points in class and your whole grade was based on basically 5 opion geared one-page papers. Not fun, not interesting. The most unique class I've taken would probably be the seminar I had to take freshman year because I'm in the honors program. It was called "Yuck! Diseases through the ages" or something like that. It was once a week, but pretty interesting. Haha I really liked the reactions I got from people when I told them I was in that class though....... I feel like CSU is a good academic environment though. I have had intellectual conversations outside of class, and have heard some as well. I think the academic requirements are pretty typical, and that yeah, the education is geared toward probably getting you a job. Of course there are classes that aren't specifically job related that you'll have to take and those are more learning for its own sake, but it really is about coming out of college ready for a job though, and I think CSU will do that for me.

So far I have enjoyed the classes I've taken at CSU. I do feel that a lot of the general education classes are redundant from High School and feel they are not necessary to take when students are ready to take upper level classes. Some of the requirements seem like they hold students back from their potential or from graduating early, or even on time.

Professors usually don't know my name, because most of my classes are too large. My favorite class by far is health and the mind taught by Mark Benn. I believe that class is the best class I've had in my schooling career. I have never been to a class where people wanted to go, and although the way he teaches is unorthodox and probably a little controversial, I wouldn't change it for the world. If he ever left CSU this school would have a huge loss. Other then that class I have had some great teachers in other classes, but once again the large classes such as chemistry are hard to monitor and most students don't go.

I like most of my classes here but there are a few that are eitheer too hard or the teacher rubs me in the wrong way. Especially when teachers are not very understanding. It is too difficult to receive an a in my opinion.

I feel like the majors offered at CSU are really good. there is a wide variety and a lot of choices that seem to have bright futures. I feel as though open option shouldn't be a choice because those who begin with that have trouble getting in to the major they actually desire. I think advisors should highly recccomend that freshman begin in the major they are leaning to and not say that open option is a real option because its actually just a hinderace.

They are hard but when studied well enough you can succeed and do well in all that you need. the teachers are all great and helpful and always ready to help out when needed.

If it is a smaller class the Professors know my name, and they are extremely helpful. I really like the classes that force you to do homework because then it is really hard to get behind in class. The competitiveness of a class depend on which class your in, some are really competitive and other not as much. The professors are really helpful.

Undergrad classes at csu are very large and therefore you dont get to know professors by name. My favorite class at csu was child psych, but my best professor was my history professor. He was very easy to approach and very willing to help. Class participation is not very common in big classes and most classes are lecture style.

They are good, but they want to really weed you out. Some teachers are non existant and hard to reach. The advisors in the engineering department, especially civil are really bad.

One of the most unique classes I have taken at CSU is Food From Farm to Table with Professor Jack Avens. I have learned so many things about the food I eat like what its processed with, how it is manufactures, the process of canning and jarring food, how animals are made into cuts of meat. It has really opend my eyes to how much it takes to get food to the consumer.