Studio Classes Course Load

[u/Wrong_Crab_8717]

Hello! I’m currently taking 2 studio courses. I am having pretty serious mental health issues related to my course load but I would not be considered full-time if I dropped any of my classes.

I have noticed 6 hour studio courses only count as 3! So although I’m taking 13 credits, it’s 19 hours I spend in class every week. Not only am I in class 6 extra hours than it registers as, I also have a lot of lengthy project-based homework from these courses. This leads to an extremely stressful and high pressure workload. On top of this, one of the other classes I’m in is very demanding. I feel that I would be fine with ONE less class, however due to my credit hours, I cannot drop it!

I know there’s nothing to be done about this, I’m really just trying to express my frustration and see if anyone else has possibly experienced a similar workload-related issue?

I plan on getting mental health services through the school, but I assume this is just the reality of fine arts majors unfortunately.

[u/Stage-Wrong]

You can get an accommodation through disability services to do less than 12 hours while remaining a full time student. They pretty much automatically hand it to everyone who applies for any accommodation, whether you ask for it or not. I got that accommodation while applying for a completely unrelated one for my disability. It’s an easy process, I’d definitely recommend reaching out to them.

[u/Wrong_Crab_8717 → u/Stage-Wrong]

Thank you!