CUNY Queens College Top Questions

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Queens College students get a great education. Most college professors are passionate about teaching their subject and are available during office hours. Many professors are also willing to allow students to do research with them.

Whether or not the professors know your name really depends on you. If you take an active interest in the subject, introduce yourself, ask the professor questions and go to his/her office hours then he/she will know your name for the semester. After that, he/she will if you keep in touch. If not, there are so many new faces and names every semester for most professors that it's unlikely he/she will remember your name. I have too many favorite classes to name them all individually. A few of my favorites are PSCI 102 (Political Controversies), Music 68 (Gamelan / Balinese Ensemble), Spanish 203, Dance 255 (Intro to Dance Therapy), Psych 101, and Philosophy 104 (Intro to Ethics). The common factor between all of these classes is they were smallish (10-40 students) and I am still in touch with all of the teachers, who were fantastic. I also made friends in those classes that I still get together with. The school has a huge, amazing library where students study all the time. Students definitely have intellectual conversations outside of class. They participate more in slightly upper level classes - some of the 101s and general education requirements are classes that some people don't care about or want to be in. Depends on the luck of the draw a lot of the time. I'm a Psychology major. The Psych department is on the 3rd floor of the Science Building, which is sort of annoying. The professors are great, but it can be difficult to get into the classes you need sometimes if you don't jump on it during preregistration. The Psych major is one of the most popular ones in the school, and the required experimental psych labs have only a certain number of seats. The school has a helpful Office of Career Development and Study Abroad Office. There are so many resources at Queens College, including the Writing Center where I work. The school is really a place to succeed.

I am a student in the TIME 2000 Program at QC, which is a mathematics teaching scholarship program. During my freshman year in the program, I was already in the field observing middle and high school mathematics classes. Once every month, we attend mathematics seminars and twice each year we attend mathematics conferences. The classes that we are enrolled in through this program are typically small, some only containing 12 students. The professors always make time to know your name and are always willing to offer help for any student who needs it. This program is close-knit, with a great support system. I study and work with many of my fellow classmates after school. This is not the case for all classes at QC. Lecture hall classes are more impersonal, but if you make an effort to know the professors, they will make the effort to know and help you. Last semester I began taking Irish 101, learning the Irish language. Very few schools offer this course and I am lucky to be learning a language that so few people still speak. Although I know more about the mathematics education courses, I also happen to know many students in the Aaron Copland School of Music and the Macaulay Honors Program at QC. Both are very extensive programs, but provide such an insightful education. The Music Program, especially with Music Education, focuses on providing a strong music theory education for prospective music teachers. These programs, as well as TIME 2000, offer scholarships, as well as an education that will prepare you for your future career.

Most professors try their best to learn your name. Professors are always willing to stay after class and answer any questions. Students are competitive with one another, which is the key to success, I believe. There is this very unique program called, "Business and Liberal Arts." It is an Honors Program for those interested to minor in Business. Even for those who are interested in picking a minor and combining their major with this program. I was not interested in Business until I started taking these "BALA" classes. All of my friends enjoy them. I am sure you would too!

people work really hard,most of the professors are friendly and generous.

people work really hard,most of the professors are friendly and generous.

One of the things I really like about classes is the size of the classroom in relation to class participation. Participation is up to you. So if you are in a large classroom and you don't participate then the professor is not likely to know your name. I have lecture hall classrooms (100 people) and I participate a decent amount to the point that the professors know my name and I like that. Its not like there is a "teacher's pet," but I've found that professors really take note of- and appreciate- student participation. Students often have intellectual conversations outside of class- sometimes about class but sometimes not. I often overhear people telling their friend's about a class that they are taking out of genuine interest. I don't tend to spend a lot of time with my professors outside of class, but I do often e-mail them if I have a question or comment about the lesson. I'm rather pleased with the school's academic requirements (PLAs), it seems to encompass many different fields of information that I probably would not have bothered to look into had I not been told it was required. But I'm so glad that the requirements are what they are because some of my best classes have been the ones that I wouldn't have taken otherwise.

I'm a political science major, so I take a lot of classes in that department. It happens to be a pretty strong department, with energetic and brilliant professors who care about their students and like promoting intellectual discussion within the classroom, in office hours, and beyond. In political science classes, participation is common, as the students all feel strongly about the subjects being taught. This is true of other disciplines as well. Queens also hopes that students will broaden horizons while at college, so students have various requirements. One of my favorite classes was originally taken to just fill a requirement. This class was Introduction to Acting. Not only was it motivating, entertaining, and quite a stress reliever, it also helped to build public speaking abilities. Another one of my favorite classes was Business Writing, which I found extraordinarily useful and practical. Assignments included writing memos to "bosses" about certain newspaper articles, writing cover letters, resumes, business e-mails, and more. Fortunately, I have thoroughly enjoyed every class I have taken at QC - maybe this is because all of the professors and their classes are great - and maybe this is because I am diligent about checking teacher evaluations! Either way, there are enough good teachers to have gotten me to junior year without any bad experiences, and I think that says something.

I want to be challenged a lot more in my general education classes. I want there to be more research projects and more outside the classroom hands-on studies. the classes and discussions are phenomenal in the classroom, but I want to go outside the classroom and learn more about how one can apply what we learn in the classroom to world outside the educational context. As for my departmental classes, I could not ask for a better program than the ones provided here at Queens College. The teachers spend time outside of the classroom to help, and most of the faculty care about our education.

because of the small class size (with the exception of some freshman classes), many professors quickly learn their students' names. my favorite classes happened to be anthro 101 with professor folch and british literature with professor walkden. these teachers were so inspiring and so passionate about what they teach that it just motivated me even more to be a teacher. english has never been this intensive in my life, and i truly love it - the faculty at queens really knows what it's doing.

Students are pretty serious and do often study. An Honors Seminar on Dreams is the most unique class I have taken. The English dept is awesome!!! and there are a lot of english majors. I think the education is geared towards learning for the sake of learning.

All of my Prof/ know my name, but I always go to class and activlly participate! I love my poli. sci. classes & my jewish studies classes. The poli. sci. department as a whole i dont really like. They are too liberal for me & i feel the prof. have 1 sided views. Besides that I enjoy my classes and my time spent at queens.

once you declare your major, professors know you much better. in the lecture halls the professors do nto know u at all.

professors dont know my name. my fav class is art studio ad sociology. least favorite anthropology. students study very frequenthly. class participation is very common, we can talk as express ourselves. no intellectual conversation outside the class. unique class sociology and art history. i dont spend time with my professors outside class.

Some classes are small and others are large. depends on whethe ru want the teacher to know ur name, so sometimes a lecture hall is the best place for you.my favorite class is costume design, its a step away from having to take boring unnecessary requirement classes. i guess students are competative but not really everyone helps eachother out most of the time. Sometimes schools are really hard on making u take courses for ur future, for a job and u forget that schools also about just learning. I think QC can gear u towards a career but also open up your mind to new things

I've had a lot of great professors so I really can't complain, although some people may. Quite a few professirs know me by name which can be good and can be bad. My favorite classes would have to be my calculus and comparative lit classes. Class participation isn't always common but once one person starts others join in. I'm a math major and the professor and those who work in the dept. have been really helpful and I can't complain too much about the job they do. Some professors are better than others. I'm not the type to see professors outside the classroom but most of them make themselves readily available to you. I'm more of an email person and they respond to you fairly quickly. I think the requires at Queens make you a well rounded student and person. YOu get to try out a little bit of everything. Which is why I think Queens is geared to learning for its own sake. I feel it helped foster a love of learning in me and not just get a degree so I can get out and get a job.

We have a strong science department and lots of pre-med & pre-dental students. QC has a good variety academically and excels in almost every area. We have an adult continuing education department and a weekend program which both bring in a slightly older adult. We have online classes. CUNY has a great honor's program where tuition is paid for and students are pampered.

most proffs know my name favorite class history least geoloy there are some intellectual convos outside of class little competition between students most unique class i took was political science 100 with Hacker my major department is not that helpful or friendly there is no pre-registration for most history classes i do not like the academic requirements, if you know what you want to do in life than u should not have to take classes that do not have to do with your career

Commetitive, Bes International Business Program

Two professors out of 4 knows my name. My favorite class is sculpture because it hands on. And its not boring. I dont think students study that much. Class participation does not take place in 2 of my 4 classes. Students are ot very competitive. I dont spend time with the professors outside of class.

I know all of my professors names. My favorite class, all of my science and english classes. I really can not choose. I study often, most students do. Class participation does not always happen, though it should and professors do their best to get students to talk. I am a Geology and English major. I spend a lot of time talking with my professors outside of the classroom asking for advice on grad schools, GRE's and other important information pertaining to my carreer goals and direction. I think the requirements could be changed a bit. There are some classes that I feel are not that important. The most unique class I took was Natural Disasters. I enjoyed the class a lot. I have many intellectual conversations outside of the class room. Education at QC is geared both towards getting a job or establishing a career and learning for it's own sake. It is really what the student makes of it.

they have very good professors.

Classes range from >100 student seminars, usually only for basic courses, to very personal seminars. Honors students get the benefit of special attention. If you participate, if you seem engaged, the professor will always know your name. True here as I'm sure it'd be true at an Ivy League school. My experience with the faculty has been mostly positive. I have met a few amazing professors who have absolutely blown my mind. The professors run the gamut. There are some who see education as a means to achieve paradise, like it says in a quotation on one of our buildings. There are others who are awful. The problem is that most professors are adjuncts. I spend a ton of time with my professors during their office hours. Professors have always been happy to speak with me, about classwork as well as about other classes and even extracurricular life. Students aren't competitive, they're self-motivated. A Queens College student has no one to coddle them. As a first semester freshman, I took a Poli Sci class called Sexual Politics. It completely changed my worldview, and introduced me to an entirely new way of thinking. In the social sciences, professors will often cross the boundaries of major disciplines. A history professor will teach a Jewish studies course, or a linguist might teach anthropology. This has never proven difficult, but the fact is that it's left me without a particular major in mind. They're all quite vague. The facilities are mostly no-frills. We

my favorite classes will always be psychology and sociology classes, but i must say peer counseling tops them both! i once took a political science class on women and politics--i was constantly bringing up various things i learned to my friends outside the class and even outside the school-it was an amazing experience. the things i have learned at queens college have made me who i am today, it's amazing the realm of information available to you!

As previously stated, the classes big, sometimes 100 people. It is impossible, and as a matter fact, it is sometimes unheard of that a professor will even remember you being a student in his class. It's unfortunate, but that's how it is in such a small school with high amount of students. Academics differ from professors to professors. Some professors will challenge you and give you an excellent foundation towards future, while others will do everything by the book and give you just enough to go ahead. There are however those who will keep you behind, and may even destroy to dream. Of course, these types of professors exist in every single college. Queens College academic requirements are fair. Though some people might need to take additional classes in order to fulfill some requirements.

Queens College is a great community college, filled with many choices and paths in life. From Business to Art, to Geology to Urban Studies, QC has many courses to choose from.

i have been in the school on and off for two years and i have never had a bad teacher. which is amazing.

The academics at QC are very involved. Many students seem to participate in most of my classes and many students get together for study sessions in the library every day.

The requirements at QC can sometimes be a little confusing. In order to graduate you need to have completed 120 credits as wells as the LASARS (Liberal Arts and Sciences Requriements). The good thing is that many classes fulfill more than 1 requirement, and most of them are really interesting. The reason for the LASARS is that they want their students to be well rounded, taking language classes, lab science classes, music classes, and phys. ed. classes. There are so many choices that you will be hard pressed to find someone who has taken the exact same classes as you. I have a hard time actually deciding which class is my favorite. It seems that every semester I have a new favorite class. This semester I'm taking transitions to democracy for my political science minor. It seems as if everyone knows everyone else in this class. Discussions are fun. We're a little behind on the sylabus, but that doesn't really matter because even when we go off on a tangent, we're still learning. I don't want you to think that every class is amazing because they aren't. My least favorite class was Psycholohy 232 Personality. I am a psych major, and there are a certain amount of psych electives that you have to take to get your degree. I figured this would be an interesting class, but it wasn't. Maybe if the class was taught by a better professor, who actually cared about her students (instead of getting her grad school requirements taken care of) it would have been more enlightening. The class average on the final was a 56 (thankfully I passed with a 74). Most classes, thankfully are not like this, and most of the professors do care.

Honors Programs and remedial programs. the whole spectrum.

Most of my professors do make an effort to know my name, unless it is a huge lecture hall. i feel that the requirements at queens college are up to par. class participation at school seems uncommon, most people are not willing to share their opinions and views.

My favorite class at Queens College was my seminar for political science. Professor Rollins was just such a down to earth kind of guy. He was funny, serious, informative and friendly all at the same time. There are students who compete for the teachers attention, who always go that extra step in the classroom and there are also the students who fall asleep in the back of the room, or go on their laptop writing "notes" (a.k.a checking facebook), but there is a level for everyone. My least favorite class was economics. The teacher could not speak English that well, and you can't really learn if you don't understand the subject or the person who is teaching it!

overall the academics are very good. most of the classes i've taken aren't too difficult and you walk away having learned something. the professors are pretty helpful for the most part. the class sizes start out pretty large but get smaller as you advance in your major. the school is right near manhattan which is really gives a lot of options for internships.

Its up to the student whether the professor knows your name. Favorite class is the ones applying to my major, least favorite are mathematics and science.

It's hard to explain the academics at QC because every class is different. Depending on the subject of the class the class size varies. Which in turn results in whether or not the teacher knows your name, can appropriately help you and so on. I believe that as a student moves further into their major, the class become more personal, intense and competitive.

Most classes at Queens College are small, and professors are almost always willing to meet with you outside of class. Students receive plenty of individual attention. Students should study more, but don't. Most classes and professors are reasonable, but many students are still in high-school mode. There are plenty of students engaging in intellectual conversations, but you'll have to go out and find them. Queens College educates students with the goal of learning. It's not a trade school, so it's understandable. Queens College has recently revamped its educational requirements, so it's now tougher to get into.

Academics would have to be something that I am not so satisfied about. I want to start with the MATH department. I have taken 3 math courses at Queens College during my 1 and a half years here and after careful consideration I’ve concluded that the math department - SUCKS. When I write math department, I write this in regards to the teachers and the math department's secretaries (room 237 I believe). Most of the math teachers that I’ve had during my time here were: Prof. Young, Prof. Marla Sims, Prof. Eisen and Prof. Tousi. Prof. Young's class was by the far the most enjoyable and intellectual of the rest which were very boring and too fast. Prof. Sims in my opinion is much more of a substitute teacher than a Prof.. She teaches class way to fast and has high expectations of her students when they receive little homework from her, she is unenthusiastic, and doesn't seem to care much really. I'm sure she’s a nice old lady though. Prof. Eisen's class had more values and light to it than Prof. Sims class did. I think it’s because Prof. Eisen assigned a lot of homework and asked students to write the homework on the board so that the whole class could compare errors and check answers. The only flaw I had in the class was with her tests and her speed. She writes her tests in bad hand writing and makes bad copies of them and expects us to finish in an hour. Instead of doing the real math problems, I found myself adding up her terrible written letters to see if they make up words instead! The last thing is the speed - she goes way to fast as well. Now after seeing these "speed flaws" in both these past teachers as well as in my current one, Prof. Tousi, I asked myself, "is this the teachers fault or the Math Departments fault?”. If this is the speed the math department expects the professors to teach at then they need to find some sort of other method because at this pace, only about 75{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} or 50{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} are going to pass the class. Now when talking about the math department's secretaries, those people need some patients once in freakin while. I feel as if whenever I ask a question they hurry me and make me feel as if i asked a question that’s completely unnecessary. Like Prof. Marla Sims, they seem like nice ladies but need to work with students and not so fast. Don't let me make them sound like cruel people though, they do say "how may I help you sweetie" every time I see them :). When it comes to academic requirements I think they are ridiculous. Considering that this is a Liberal Arts and Science college, do we really need these core classes such as science and music? I've had enough of these in high school so why would I double the headaches? These classes, unless I needed them for a major, are useless. Although I find the science classes to be very interesting, I still believe they are useless. As contradicting as this may sound, I’m happy I took the science classes because of how interesting they were. But what about the students who don't like science? They shouldn't struggle to pass a class they dislike because it will only stress they're GPA's. Students in MOST of my class were definitely not competitive. Three out of the four math classes I have had were completely d e a d. Students at powdermaker hall with classes such as philosophy where also dazed out and unaware of what was going on. The most unique class that I have taken so far would have to be English 110, mostly in part because I had a killer teacher named Prof. Lyness. She was new and really brought life to the class. Furthermore, the students in my English class were very active and fun to work with. There wasn't a day we didn't laugh or learn in her class. I think this is because students, including myself, were freshman and were "fresh" to college life so it was an experience we could all share together.

Yes they know my name. My favorite class is physics and my least is anthropology. Students in the sciences study alot, but in the liberal arts not so much. Some students have intellectual conversations out of class but others don't, clearly. Students are competitive within sciences I find, nothing else. I don't spend time with my professors I have nothing to ask. Education here is geared towards getting a job.