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Summer
offers students more course flexibility
for scheduling
By
Melissa Duque
Daily Forty-Niner
With
the rise in fees and questions of class
availability, Cal State Long Beach students
are looking for options to their worries.
The
days of summer vacation are being replaced
with the constant year round academics that
some students and professors prefer.
Professor
David Hood of the history department who
has been teaching summer sessions since
1966 said, "Students who attend summer
sessions are more involved with the subject;
they attend because they want to. During
the school year students are more worn down
than in the summer and the class times enable
students to not lose the information."
"I
wanted to make my senior year easier,"
said Elyse Davidson, a Senior Political
Science major. "That's why I'm taking
some now because it is much shorter than
a regular semester and I don't get as lazy
towards the end."
According
to CSULB's Web site, the price for summer
session for current students is $146 per
unit plus $7 Student Union fee, $35 Student
Health Services fee and $33 ASI fee.
As
students take more classes during the summer
the price per unit drops steeply. A full
12-unit course load would cost less during
the summer than during the school year.
"I
am taking summer school because the tuition
is getting higher every school year, plus
I can get out earlier," said Eugene
Lu, a junior finance major. I am an international
student, and they charged us $282 per unit
before the hike. Now they raised the per
unit fee by $57 to $339 per unit. So it
will cost me over $6,000 to take 15 units
itself. By taking 12 units of summer school,
I managed to save like $600."
Another
option some CSULB students are taking advantage
of is attending a city college during summer
session.
Robin
Lynch, a junior Chicano Latino studies major
said, "Well I'm taking the summer course
at Long Beach Community College because
it is free because it is covered by my financial
aid. Also, I'm taking an online course because
I don't want to attend classes four days
a week for four hours a week."
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