Georgian Court University Top Questions

What are the academics like at your school?

Ashley

All of my professors know my name. I'm a Communications major, so I have had the same two teachers as far as those classes go. My favorite class is Mass Media and Pop Culture. My professor gives us cool assignments and her tests are easy and she has a great rapport so all that makes for a great class. My least favorite classes were Math and Biology. I had a horrible Math professor who covered herself in chalk and who would ask the class a thousand questions to get to the answer she was looking for when we clearly did not know what she was talking about. She wasn't accommodating at all to the needs of the student either. My biology teacher played favorites and she was just boring--I spent every class (twice a week) on Myspace.

Felicia

We are very small, about 3,300 students including graduate students. Students in the same major tend to know each other pretty well and stay within their little groups but are friendly and inviting to others as well. For example, in the Communications Department all the "communications girls" know each other and typically have 2 or more classes together in which we can pick out the non-communications majors and/or new students at a glance. Since they're closely related, we have a sort of friendly bantering relationship with the English and Education Departments. Public Relations majors take a lot of classes at the Business School as well so you have a chance to branch out. The professors are very friendly and accessible. They'll recognize and greet you in the hall, ask how your semester is going and remember personal details of your life from when you took their class. Classes are very small (25-30 students) so you have plenty of interaction with your professor and they always teach their own classes. GCU is more academically rigorous than a party school but it's not overwhelmingly stressful. I don't know how people went about their college careers back in the day but most of the girls I know take between 15-18 credits a semester plus clubs and activities. We have a "study day" just before finals when there are no classes and the library is full. We have three signature classes that everyone has to take because we're a catholic women's college. Womens Studies, The Christian Tradition or Discovery the Bible and Philosophical Inquiry. They're not easy but you don't have to be a theology major to get a good grade in Christian Tradition, for example. Hint: Take Dr. Vento for Christian Tradition and Womens Studies! She's the chair of the department and super cool. ;)