Word: workload
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...ideal concentration for four years is choosing the correct courses semester to semester. For many, the CUE’s guide is a godsend; it allows them to sort out energetic and responsive professors from less inspiring ones, to get a handle on a course’s workload, and to build a shopping list which will yield a pleasurable semester that balances a four-course workload with aplomb...
...course guide succeeds because of the wealth of information it provides: an aggregate evaluation of the professor, the TFs, the workload. The subject matter is used differently by each student, to their own goal. Moreover, the numbers are built on something students can trust: themselves and their peers...
...same should be done for concentrations. Sophomores and juniors currently make their way through concentrations without being solicited for responses, and thereby suffer (or rejoice) from their concentration in silence. Hopes and fears may go unmentioned. Are the tutors too distant? The workload more than expected? Senior tutors or mental-health professionals may get an earful from a fed-up student, but that information is not registered, and more students are condemned to fall into the same traps...
This change led to a more than 65-percent increase in applications, resulting in a "workload that has stretched the admission staff and alumni interviewers to the limit," according to a Brown press release...
...Guide ratings can encourage a professor to alter his teaching style or change the workload of her class, but the greatest implication of the CUE guide is its effect on the tenure and promotions of professors within the university, according to some Faculty members...