I've pretty well talked myself into staying in school to get my associates of applied science degree specializing in IT Specialist/Web Design. Right now I'm in the diploma program for the same thing so everything will transfer. I'm having a hard time deciding about some of these electives though and I'd love some input.
These are the CIST options and I have to chose one:
Visual Basic I
C# Programming
PHP Programming
Java Programming
Mobile App Development
Web App Programming
OpenSource Web App Programming
Interactive & Social App Programming
The problem is that I am really not that interested in app programming. I would rather do one of the languages, but is that the right thing to do? It feels like everything is moving into an app based direction. Would I be stupid to pass those up to take something old school like Basic?
The Arts electives I have to chose from are
Art Appreciation
American Literature
Intro To Humanities
Music Appreciation
I am leaning toward music appreciation because I've gotten to where I don't really listen to music much anymore and when I do it's all 90s & 70s. While I don't think there's anything WRONG with that (especially since everything on the radio is crap) I feel like maybe it would help me branch out a little bit.
The Social/Behavior Sciences electives I have to choose from are:
Principles of Economics
Principles of Macroeconomics
Principles of Microeconomics
World History I
World History II
U.S. History I
U.S. History II
American Government
Introductory Psychology
Intro to Sociology
Obviously I am leaning toward the last two because the others all sound like hell on earth. I have a slight bias to Sociology but basically everyone has said I'd have more fun in Psych.
HELP ME?
First off I want to say; Congratulations! I think you're making an excellent choice staying for the degree.
ReplyDeleteThis semester I am doing all Core classes so they will be out of the way and I can focus on the occupational classes for the rest of the time.
I'm taking both Principles of Economics and Intro to Psychology this semester. Economics is all online and if you can read the book you should do fine.
Psychology is kind of fun, it REALLY teaches you how to make a proper research paper. You're a great writer so I believe you would Ace the class. Dr. Harston is my teacher and he is pretty cool and awkward, but also really helpful.
Programming is a bit above my head. I took Intro to Java before and it was confusing to me.