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My liberal studies class sizes ranged from 20-50 people more or less, but I still had many one on one relationships with those professors. My classes for my major are wonderful. My professors are very close knit with their students. I have some of the most well educated and helpful professors I could possibly ask for.

I feel that IUP is fully geared towared helping us get a job and learning all we can about our majors so that when we graduate we can do the best we were taught. My major is among one of the least common in Pennsylvania. My major is Family and Consumer Science Education. IUP is one of two schools in the state that offer this major so I'm really glad that they still have it!

The most unique class I have taken is Myth/Religion in the Ancient Near East. I would recommend this class to anyone because it teaches about a time in history that is very interesting, yet very often ignored. The curriculum in the religion dept is very realistic, allowing you to graduate in 4 years even if you take those few extra "cool" classes. My favorite part about this dept is the Honors track because it allows you to substitute the internship requirement with an experience abroad. I'm going to Ireland next Summer!!! Also, the Honors track offers vital help for writing your thesis paper.

Allows for pretty well-balanced class size. You have to do work outside of class, that's a given, it's always do-able though. Languages are difficult.

Most of the professors I had in previous semesters remember who I am which is good because it means IUP has good student-teacher interaction. I have enjoyed most of my major classes. My favorite class I have took at IUP during my two years at IUP was Teaching Fitness and Gymnastics.

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My favorite class was English second semester, w/ the best Professor in the world, Marlen Harrison.

Some profs know your names. You really have to make an effort in some of the intro classes. I have met people who have never been to our library and some never do homework. I would say you can get away with doing about 5 hours of homework a week and get A's. I feel like people here want a degree and are less worried about getting an education. Overall it is what you want it to be. If you get to know your profs and stay after class to ask questions you can do very well. The profs are all intelligent and i've only met a few that weren't nice.

The classes at IUP can be hard and at the same time very easy depending on the professor so ask around when picking classes or use ratemyprofessor.com. That helped me a lot. My average class size was about 30 people but in some of my general studies classes there were between 75-100. My major was criminology. IUP is well known for it. The professors are nice and you learn a lot. They also have a Police Academy associated with the university. The biggest thing I learned was how to deal and talk with people from all walks of life.

Yes, the professors do know my name, when I take more than one class with them in it. My favorite class was a freshman course that was Geography and the teacher who taught it was very good. He explained things quite throughly with us and told the students what he expected of us. Plus the man has a funny bone and who doesn't apperciate a prof with a sense of humor. My least favorite class was in Fall 2007. My teacher, for Global Genres, was a nice guy, but I could not (for the life of me) understand just what he was trying to get at. Needless to say, 3/4 of the class felt that way too. Maybe I'm just not as open-minded as I thought I was.... Class participation is more than common; it's required. Most of the time, yes. Other times, some just complain about it and then decide it's a good idea to give up on studying and just goof off. I should know, I'm friends with some of these people. IUP really isn't competitive, we're rather laid-back, if I may say so. Now if you wanna talk to IUP Honor students, that is another thing entirely! Humanities Literature. That was a unique class and the theme for that term was "Big Brother: Is he watching you?". Now, for those who have read '1984', you'll understand this menaing, if not: read it! For the love of God, read it!! While the class was still an English class and we still had to read, our reading materials were very different from the usual Shakespeare and Blake. We learned about our government's thoughts about secruity, the USA's view on rascism and just how that ties in with ye-olde English literature. I'll be taking the same teacher who taught this calls again in the coming 2008 fall term. The education at IUP depends on the student's major. While the school does its best for introducing students to a variety of jobs or at least an idea for a job, where you go with what you have is entirely up to the student. Take my major for example: English. The department is good at what it does: teaching not only the language to foreign exchange students, but teaching the reading material and English education program is famous for producing English teachers of various sorts. English education is quite obvious, but just plain old English is quite different from education. With this, I have no idea just what I'll be doing in 5, 10 years down the road. That's up to me.