Go to tracs and see how many hours you've taken in your major, and put that over how many hours you've taken total. The closer to 1 your fraction comes to, the better person you are.

The easy way to do it is to go to Academic Information drop down list, chose Degree Audit, the choose Academic Totals.

I've had 42 hours of philosophy classes (denoted by the [user][u]M[u/][/user] on the degree audit)
There are actually 42 philosphy classes offered at NCSU.
Kind of odd for a degree that trys to understand the meaning of life.

So 42/124 = .34 of a good person.

On a more serious note, is spending 1/3 depth and 2/3 bredth appropriate amounts to recieve a degree in a major. I know the requirements aren't exactly alike, but an english major and nuke major have more in common than they have apart if other people are like me in having around only having about 1/3 focused on their major. And I imagine it will be because I've used many of my free electives towards Philosophy.

So how focused are you?

1/24/2006 5:08:44 PM

Quote :

"The closer to 1 your fraction comes to, the better person you are."

I think what you are presenting makes an interesting point ... but it has nothing to do with being a "better" person. It has everything to do with whether a degree allows any free/restricted electives to take additional courses in your major.

1/24/2006 6:06:09 PM

HA, mine's like 1.3

it seems like you didn't think this one through too much.

1/24/2006 6:21:17 PM

what about us folks that have three majors?

1/24/2006 6:36:41 PM

^^^yeah that part was just a bit of fun

"HA, mine's like 1.3

it seems like you didn't think this one through too much."

^^mrfrog, either I'm missing something or you have taken more classes in your major, than you've had total.

^add all 3 major courses, over course number total... I imagine you'll end up with higher than 1/3 fraction, but how many majors will be useful in your job?

[Edited on January 24, 2006 at 6:42 PM. Reason : .]

1/24/2006 6:38:17 PM

36/109 so far

0.336

1/24/2006 9:18:03 PM

if you retake a course does it count twice?

1/24/2006 9:21:10 PM

Oh god it's math.

1/24/2006 9:22:23 PM

^^no, cause you don't get double the experience in your field since its the same material. don't add the first try to your total # of classes is your major or your total # of classes as a whole.

1/24/2006 10:12:09 PM

Well considering I aspire to be a professor, botany, zoology, AND biology will all be pertinent to my job.

1/24/2006 10:41:18 PM

Biochemistry and Chemistry (BS)

114/153 = 0.75

if you just count GPA hours though, I'm over 1.0 (114/113)

1/25/2006 11:36:08 AM

major classes/total classes

i don't see how people are getting over 1... can someone fill me in?

1/25/2006 1:18:55 PM

AP credit I'm guessing.

1/25/2006 2:11:34 PM

ap credit, transfer credit, any kind of college level class counts a part of a total... i thought it was understood that total means adding up everything

1/25/2006 5:09:49 PM

what about courses that you cant get credit for both, like CH 211 and 315

1/25/2006 7:04:20 PM

This ratio has nothing to do with being "focused" with your major.

Some majors have parts of the curriculum from a lot of non-major courses and you can't just throw them into an "elective" catagory with everything else. For example, NEs have to take MAE301 (thermo) and MAE308 (fluids), but some later NE courses like NE400 (heat transfer) and NE401 (more fluids) are direct extensions of those MAE courses. So, you can't weigh these MAE courses like you would a humanities course in this case. On the other hand, someone in CSC would experience the entirely opposite, where the core of their curriculum are pretty much CSCXXX only.

It also depends on how many electives are offered by your department.

1/25/2006 10:13:17 PM

this was done partly in jest, and partially to see whether people were more specialize or more generalized... it wasn't meant to be a strict formula with lots of technical details. if you don't know how something should count just chose where to put it, or skip over it. one or two classes hopefully wont make a huge difference on figuring out general trends.

1/25/2006 10:47:00 PM

18/66 = .27

lol

1/25/2006 11:00:23 PM