If you are doing the Disneyland program, where you don't have a choice but to take classes, this is especially important for you.
If your deciding to take multiple classes, consider the following...
1) What times your classes are?
Your bosses have to give you the time off for your classes and give you ample time to get to class on time or get to work on time (depending on the situation). For many, this means that class days typically end up as your day off. That's how it was for me. And because of the time of my classes and my unique job, I could never pick up shifts on my day off. For some of you that's no big deal but for me that was very annoying sometimes.
2) What days your classes are?
When I was choosing my classes, I thought it would be a good idea to put both of my classes on the same day. In my head it made sense because it would be one day a week that I was guaranteed off. However, that plan quickly backfired on me.
First, I was waking up in the 7am hour on my off day to be professionally dressed and relatively groomed to be at class by 8am. That was rough. Then when that class was over I had about a 2 1/2 hour break before my next class. It turned out to not really be enough time to do anything significant like grocery shop or explore somewhere. If I had a car it might have been different but changing clothes then walking to the store or waiting for the bus to go to the store, then coming back, changing again and booking it to my second class in Patterson... just never seemed like a good idea to me.
So that break turned into nap time with maybe some apartment cleaning. Then i would go to my next class (Adv studies in Hospitality Mgt) located in Patterson (I lived in Chatham). That class went from 1:30pm to 5:30pm!!! It was soooo long. I found it to be great information but my body was just not happy to try and focus on classes for that many hours a day. And I already graduated college so i wasn't getting any credit for these classes. They were just for fun and more information.
Well eventually (about 3 classes in) I realized that I didn't want to spend my typically only off day of the week sitting in classes all day. So, I ended up dropping the really long class and keeping the early exploration series course. It guaranteed that i would be up early on Wednesdays, be done with class by 10am and would still have a huge part of my day to do whatever I wanted (aka visit parks/resorts)
I say all of that to say, be wise when choosing what days and times to have your classes. You know yourself better then you give yourself credit for. If you are doing the Disneyland program, where you dont have a choice but to take classes, this is especially important for you.
3) How much total homework is required of me?
Because I only ended up taking one of the Exploration Series classes, I didn't have homework. They would occasionally ask us to keep something in mind for next week or look at something on a website, but no papers or outside group projects.
Read the syllabuses for the classes before you register for them. See the amount of homework and tests you will have to complete and make sure it is a workload you are willing to complete.
Here is the link to the DCP Course Syllabi
