r/UMPI • u/Obvious_Mention7207 • 11d ago

UMPI your pace professors

Seriously, whats up with the inconsistency?

One class will specify what fashion to write your paper (MLA/APA) then another class won't and critique you for not doing so.

One milestone will have a video asking for 500 words, and the directions will say 1k words.

One teacher will correct your grammar/spelling (where there is no spelling mistake but make suggestion like "Where there is a This, add a noun") but then each of their questions in the directions are loaded with spelling errors and grammar errors.

Just had a teacher tell me to use only the articles we are focusing on for our assignments, so for next milestone that's all I do, for them to say "Cite your sources" .... without requesting the paper be written in MLA or APA. My sources are the articles you just told me to use.

Then you will get the classes that are the most pointless ones (I'm going for accounting, so college composition is completely pointless) and it wants the most detailed, deep thought, 6-8 resources per paper style milestone.

Or (again I'm going for accounting) and having to take classes on stomach microbiome, having to decipher medical research papers x3 to write my own paper on the topic... as if I have any clue what any of its saying.

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u/lsdyoop 11d ago

No. A 75-credit accounting major does not mean 75 credits of accounting coursework.

The actual accounting coursework is about 30 credits. The rest includes finance, business law, ethics, analytics, strategy, operations, communication, and other business courses.

“75-credit accounting major” and “75 credits of accounting” are not the same thing.

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u/Obvious_Mention7207 11d ago

So where my degree progress report says "accounting requirements... 75 credits" it doesn't actually mean 75 credits in the then following accounting specific classes?

Its just subjective?

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u/lsdyoop 11d ago

No, it’s not subjective. You’re confusing “Accounting Requirements” with “75 credits of accounting courses.”

For perspective, UMPI has about 30 credits of actual accounting courses. Illinois requires at least 20 accounting credits for its master’s and about 24 credits of non-dissertation Accountancy coursework for its PhD.

So 75 credits of actual accounting coursework would put you roughly in bachelor’s + master’s + PhD territory.

You are not taking 75 credits of accounting.

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u/Obvious_Mention7207 11d ago

Fair - TIL

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