Timeline for Studying a second undergraduate degree part-time while doing a PhD?
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| Nov 1, 2020 at 0:07 | comment | added | Inertial Ignorance | @Reid I'm not trying to devalue liberal arts in any way, but compared to the amount of study that a PhD student in the hard sciences is used to, an undergrad degree in the liberal arts really isn't hard. For certain undergrad electives I took in the liberal arts, I was able to get at least an average grade by only studying during an assignment or right before exams. And I'm not a PhD student. | |
| Oct 28, 2020 at 20:46 | history | edited | Azor Ahai -him- | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 28, 2020 at 20:44 | history | edited | Ian Sudbery | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 28, 2020 at 20:44 | comment | added | Ian Sudbery | I don't want it to sound like I'm saying the OP shouldn't do it. I just htink they shuold go in with their eyes open. | |
| Oct 28, 2020 at 20:34 | comment | added | Reid | “Liberal arts are less rigorous than what the OP is used to”? That is just not true. The various liberal arts are legitimate, rigorous fields of study, not frivolous, unimportant, or easy. | |
| Oct 28, 2020 at 17:54 | comment | added | Marianne013 | From experience (taking university level courses in a completely unrelated field): It can get really frustrating when you run out of time (due to your PhD and/or life) to do this properly. Scraping a pass if you know you could have done better if only for an extra afternoon in the library is no fun. Start slowly. | |
| Oct 28, 2020 at 16:36 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | Although if the PhD student is able to work over summer semester (assuming three years = 6 semesters), it's reduced to 14.5 hours a week (still a lot, but). | |
| Oct 28, 2020 at 12:07 | comment | added | Ian Sudbery | I can't speak for liberal arts degrees, but I wouldn't expect my PhD students to be able to take our degree in much less than 37 hours. I don't even think I could do it in substantially less time. | |
| Oct 28, 2020 at 1:14 | comment | added | Inertial Ignorance | I feel like someone who's competent enough to be a PHD student wouldn't need to spend 37 hours per week studying for a full time undergraduate degree. Especially because the liberal arts are less rigorous than what the OP is used to, and their main goal is to enrich themselves (instead of necessarily getting a 4.0). | |
| Oct 27, 2020 at 20:47 | comment | added | Frank Hopkins | One thing that might come in handy regarding the work effort though: Imho a lot of the starting courses account for the fact that students need to learn to learn (by themselves). If you already know your learning techniques and can judge which time investments are worthwhile and which aren't that can save a lot of time the average starting student "wastes". And in addition, when you do it just "for fun" you might not be focussed on grades, so an overall passing might be fine, because you focus your time on the bits that interest you, but indeed OP needs to be aware of those aspects at least. | |
| Oct 27, 2020 at 12:44 | comment | added | Buffy | And, you need buy-in from your advisor. Otherwise the situation could become untenable. | |
| Oct 27, 2020 at 9:28 | history | answered | Ian Sudbery | CC BY-SA 4.0 |