Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Entry #3 The Benefits of Shorter Classes

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2011/02/22/20110222arizona-state-university-shorter-classes.html
                According to this article, it talks about Arizona State University making the shorter seven week classes more accessible to their students. They give great opportunities to the students with being able to finish certain classes in shorter amount of time and for less money. Tuition is getting higher and higher lately at the college level and this definitely helps relieve that issue in several ways. With having these shorter classes it put some restrictions on the students though. There is certain classes at higher difficulty levels that would be nearly impossible to complete in such a short time as well as the fourteen week restriction for some classes. Overall, adding these types of classes to their curriculum is going to be beneficial for the students because it gives them more options in how to handle their educational futures.

                When it comes to the rhetoric of these article it is interesting in several ways. It is short, sweet, and to the point about what the benefits of this program are.  The word choice used by the author is easy to understand for students who would be interested in reading about the future of this program. A big bonus that this article is that it is placed in the perfect area for it to have full potential. It is written in the Arizona Republic were plenty of potential students will read it. It is not written as a typical newspaper article which will definitely attract some readers to it. Her use of simple words in the title, and I mean using words that everyone can understand, is fantastically used and will attract readers to this paper, as well. This article definitely makes people think about having the option of this program but it has brought out negative opinions as well.

                Some of the comments on this article state that Arizona State University will lose its creditability by offering these classes. Since the university is a place where the teachers not only educate their students but research other experiments as well. I do not believe that it will make the university lose any of its creditability but gain some for the classes will draw in more students and make it more beneficial for them. They also talk about how ASU is a school that is not a well-known school for its education in the public. This may be true in some cases but there is plenty of schools across the country that are not well-known to everyone in the public and ASU is no different.

                With these classes, I believe that they will be extremely beneficial for the student’s not only educational but financially as well. They do not remove any creditability from the university and still are a bonus for all. Arizona State University is a popular college within our community and students will continue to enroll with or without these classes based on their own educational dreams and opinions.

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