[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Which US college has the best program for no...
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Ask HN: Which US college has the best program for non-degree
seeking adults?
I just turned 30 this year and am yearning to go back to college.
I'm working full time so I'm looking to go to school part time. I
already have a bachelor degree and don't need another one. But I've
repeatedly found that I'm interested in topics such as philosophy,
film, finance, mathematics, biology, and many other topics
traditionally taught at universities. At this point of my career,
I'm just looking to learn; signaling is not important There are a
ton of free content online, and I know I can work through text
books. However, in my experience online content suffer from two
issues. One is lack of roadmap - hard to tackle unknown unknown.
Two is lack of community and interactivity - when I get stuck on a
problem, it's hard to get help; there is also no quizzes, homework,
and tests that facilitate learning. I know there are many, many
talented engineers and product folks working on these problems. I
get it - I just prefer to go back to college where there is a
quality baseline. Please let me know if you know of any US
university that: 1. Good school - preferably state school 2. In
person classes 3. Has programs that cater to working professionals
Author : yuy910616
Score : 6 points
Date : 2021-06-22 21:29 UTC (1 hours ago)
| kwiromeo wrote:
| you could try out some classes at the local community college. I
| know that they tend to have working professionals teaching
| course, so if you're taking a class like drawing, or finance,
| where the teacher having professional make a difference, it's a
| safe bet. I am not sure about how the liberal arts topics fare
| though
| wolverine876 wrote:
| Sounds exciting. I would love to do something similar.
|
| > In person classes
|
| I think we'd need to know your geographical location?
|
| > in my experience online content suffer from two issues. One is
| lack of roadmap - hard to tackle unknown unknown. Two is lack of
| community and interactivity - when I get stuck on a problem, it's
| hard to get help; there is also no quizzes, homework, and tests
| that facilitate learning.
|
| Also, there's a lack of access to experts. If I'm learning a new
| programming language, it sure helps to have an expert in it who
| can look at my work, see what I'm missing, and send me in the
| right direction. It's the same with history, philosophy, or
| anything else.
|
| > I'm just looking to learn; signaling is not important
|
| My thought: If I do enough, or close to enough, for a degree, I
| might as well get it. If you're focusing on one subject, and if
| you really want to learn it well, then that's what the degree is
| - a program where you learn it well. I'd take the piece of paper
| if I did the work.
|
| And it's not just signaling. The degree is for you too, or most
| of all; humans need ritual and reward; there's pride and joy and
| confidence and satisfaction in it. People spend thousands of
| hours leveling up in a game, and that's not even real!
| sridharpoduri wrote:
| Stanford via SCPD https://scpd.stanford.edu/ has some great
| courses. They have programs that cater to working professionals
| but they are all remote with group-work.
| gcheong wrote:
| I know San Francisco State has something called Open University:
| https://cel.sfsu.edu/openuniversity/ so you might look for
| something similar at other places but even so there probably
| aren't many places with classes outside of normal working hours.
| In that case your best bet may be a community or city college
| like https://www.ccsf.edu
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