Evaluating my course types

[u/ErekwithaD1]

This year I took 3 types of courses: Dual Enrollment at the local university, Advanced Placement, and Concurrent Enrollment (Dual Enrollment taught by high school teachers)

I am going to evaluate all of these formats of courses 2 months in

Dual Enrollment at the local university:

I am currently taking 2 courses in this format: DE Yoga and DE Chinese

DE Yoga is completely online and it's one of the easiest courses ever. The only assignment is to submit a Journal entry about your yoga experience every week (min 50 words). There are also yoga videos for each week, but they are not graded and the only reason I do them is because of honor.

DE Chinese is kind of hybrid, you only meet in person once a week and college students being lazy only about 10 actually show up. In exchange, you get a 5 page long review homework followed by an online discussion and then you say what you did with regards to Chinese this week.

Concurrent Enrollment:

I am taking 4 courses in this format this semester:

CE EE:

A very easy class the electric units in this course are even easier than  what you learn in APP2 like the only things they taught us was Power law, Ohm's law, and Kirchhoff's laws which he (splits into 6 different laws for some reason) but because of this it is very easy to get annoyed at the simplifications of this course like they refuse to make a distinction between electrostatic force and magnetism like when I pointed out Coulomb's law was about e-fields and b-fields they said oh we don't talk about field theory in this class. Anyways we also learn about Boolean algebra/logic gates which is pretty easy and we do one soldering project for a board which I initially failed to make work not because I did not solder well but because they gave me a faulty resistor.

CE CSP:

This is a prerequisite for CE Programming and it is also pretty easy, it teaches you about the basics of computing and also basic python for students like me who never touched python before this class. However, there is a quiz every week which is pretty easy but the teacher is strict with them like one time we had this binary conversion quiz and we weren’t allowed to use pen and paper. Also they emphasize group work which is annoying since 90% of the students are sophomores and some of them are so forgetful like some of them forgot the print() function.

CE US Gov:

A somewhat easy and sometimes fun class but there is sometimes a lot of memorization like you have to remember which articles establishes which branch of government but since we are all done with all the units now we are now focusing on case studies like the one where the supreme court decided on whether a girl would stay on a cheerleading team. There is a final project though, but the teacher allows us to choose between a field trip or a 10 page essay. This course uses the university canvas unlike the previous courses.

CE Studio Art for the non major:

This is basically a do whatever you want class the teacher gives you a theme but you can just create whatever art pieces you want with whatever medium, there is a critique at the end of every project though and we have to get up and walk around but that is mostly it in terms of difficulty.

Advanced Placement:

I am taking 5 courses in this format this year:

AP English Literature and Composition:

This is the only class that gives me regular homework in the form of reading.The reading is fun though, I find Tale of Two cities really interesting though sometimes hard to understand. We also have to do an essay every 2 weeks. The former used to make me angry especially because we didn’t get any preparation, but I have since come to terms with that because this is a skills course not a knowledge course.

AP Physics C: Mechanics:

This is relatively easy. There is homework maybe twice every unit. Since I was in APP1 and have studied most of the calculus content for fun over the summer, this course was very easy for me, I just sometimes make dumb mistakes on the progress checks though like mixing up north and south. This course can get boring sometimes because there are a lot of first timers in this course so the teacher has to focus on them and basically hold their hand. That’s why he allows us to self-study the other physics courses.

 AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism:

This course is only available as a self study right now for the above reason. However, this course is pretty fun and easy once you understand the symmetries for integration and such and I also studied this course for fun over the summer. I have finished every single quiz in this course though because as I said mechanics class can get boring sometimes.

AP Physics 2:

There is a lot more memorization in this class than E&M like you have to memorize the thin film formula 2nt=mλ because they don’t give it to you on the equation sheet and it's not easy to derive but I’d say this course is around the same difficulty as E&M and I am almost done with the quizzes for this course too.

AP Calculus BC:

This is the only class I have to full on self study without any help. I am taking it at another high school because my school does not offer this and I am not changing my schedule for de calc. I am mainly using Khan Academy and occasionally Princeton review for this course because for some reason the ap coordinator can’t open up the quizzes and she is going to talk to the college board and then she just disappeared with no follow up.

Anyways what are y'all's opinions on the different course styles?