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My professors are excellent and very knowledgeable. The classes are very challenging. It's too bad that the MBA program administration are doing much to advertise this to the rest of the country.

At UNT we have a great student teacher ratio. Freshman classes are always a bit bigger than upper level and major specific classes. Nevertheless all the big classes I've been in still have a lot of class participation. I loved my social science classes like psychology and philosophy, they really challenged in a fun and interesting way. Math has never been a strong point for me but even with my struggles I learned a lot and had a great time doing so, both my Algebra and Statistics professors helped me outside of class time and helped make sure I understood the material. I took several upper level (Junior and Senior level) courses and had a great time, the challenge was nice and the professors helpful. Because of our diversity there is always great conversation going on in class, around campus and even off campus when your just hanging out with friends. Are we a competitive school? we have a program at UNT called TAMS, the Texas Academy of Math a Science, it basically allows high school students to attend and live at North Texas, its tough having high school students compete with you for that 4.0 but it makes you strive for perfection. I took and African Music and Movement class this year, it helped open my eyes to a different style of dance and a whole new culture, we performed at several schools, festivals and even for classes and concerts here at UNT. The College of Arts and Sciences hosts my department, psychology; its one of the largest colleges on campus and toughest departments. Our Psych professors are tough but fair, I've learned so much from the men and women that make up the department and am glad to be studying with and under them. I have no doubt that everything I am learning will prepare me for an outstanding career in Psychology.

UNT college algebra sucks. The math lab suck even more. The volunteers in the math lab think they are better than everyone else. Sorry not a math person. I am not a math genius, but I can whip out a wedding dress for you. Can they. We all have different talents and I don't attitude or feel stupid.

Academics at UNT show a complete lack of similartiy. Identical classes taught by seperate professors don't even use the same text books. School and Departmental policies are ignored and mocked. Little if any time with professors are available.

Math is super hard, but if you pass, you know it. To many prof. don't speak english well, so it makes it hard sometimes.

Some professors make an attempt to know your name, but I had luck with this bc I was an honors student. My favorite class was Philosphy of Food. My least favorite class is Psyc Experimental Methods because the teacher DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO MAKE THE CLASS INTERESTING. Students can be competetive. Class participation is not very common. I hated that I was required to take classes like Math and so much spanish when I felt it was irrelevant to my major.

In my classes I'm not sure if my professors know my name,but i'm pretty sure they might. I'm an english major and about to graduate and I have yet to take a class that I absolutely love. My least favorite are the classes who have crappy uninspired teachers. For me, the professor makes all the difference in how well I enjoy or do in the class. I don't know how often students study,but I don't have much to study, I just have a crap load to read read read. Class participation is voluntary depending on your professor. Sometimes you might get someone who will randomly pick on to answer a question when you don't know the answer and you end up looking stupid. I'm pretty nosy and UNT students do talk about intellectual topics...surprisingly. Many students are very opinionated and stand strong to their beliefs....they LOVE to debate and you can see this usually going on down by campus green when some preacher is preachin'. Some students are competitive, but seriously?? we're at UNT here, not at some ivy league. Not to say I don't care about my grades or anything,I get my stuff done, but I don't go crazy and try to do better than better. I think the most unique class i've taken was principles of advertising. I had to work with a group of about 12 people and come up with an advertisement to present in front of judges. I'm the type of person that hates group work so when I found out I needed a group that large I considered withdrawing from the class to avoid failing, but it turned out that this group became extremely close and everyone got along with everyone. I've never had that experience in a group before. My major is english my department, I wish offered more classes. The saddest part of being an english major is that they don't offer a class to teach you proper grammar. I don't know the difference between past perfect, perfect present, and so on. I want to learn it !!! I don't spend time with professors outside of class unless I have an appointment with them for some academic purpose. UNT's academic requirements are reasonable.

Class participation really depends on the class and who is teaching that class.

Economics department is exceptional.

Once you get into your upper level classes, you begin to know people within your major and professors know you on a one-on-one basis. At first when you're in college you take core classes with up to hundreds of other people, but it's nice taking major classes and being able to communicate better with your professor. Students' studying obviously varies...the ones who make it generally plan out their time well and study often, and those who just have fun all of the time end up disappearing after a few semesters!!! So their fun doesn't normally last too long. Depending on your major, students can be very very competitive. Not really against each other, but more striving to do their best for themselves. I love my major, but it can be very stressful. I'm a BCIS major (business computer info systems) and often the workload is extreme. People will say, "you're only taking 12 hours???" but they don't realize that each class has projects to work on each week that take hours within themselves. It's very very demanding. But it's a small major so I'm getting to know my peers pretty well. I have about 20 people max in most of my classes and in one there is only about 12. I think the education here is mixed between learning just to learn, and geared towards jobs. I would like to have more hands on learning than just reading my books all of the time. Being a computer major, I would like to have classrooms in computer labs so we can actually get a feel of what we're doing. But the career center has great resources for getting jobs so I'm not too worried on that end.