Winona State University Transcript
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I have given every course that I have taken at WSU a difficulty rating, a "work" required rating, and an importance rating. These ratings are totally subjective and are done from the point of view of me as a college senior (comparing each course to other courses I've had). However, I try to take into account the amount of knowledge that I had when I took the course. I would like to stress that these ratings do not reflect the opinions of any of the other students who have taken these courses (they can vary considerably from student to student). Furthermore, the low difficulty ratings that I have given to some courses (for instance, most CS courses) reflects that the difficulty of those courses is low when compared to the difficulty of courses with a score of 4D (i.e. Quantum Mechanics).

For the definitions below I define "work" as all studying, homework, and research required during the course in order to get A.

Key for Subjective Course Rating (SCR)

0W	required little or no "work"
1W	required some "work", but not much
2W	required a moderate amount of "work"
3W	required quite a bit of "work"
4W	required an extreme amount of "work"
0D	the "work" was easy
1D	the "work" was not difficult
2D	the "work" was somewhat difficult
3D	the "work" was fairly difficult
4D	the "work" was quite difficult
0I	The course was a waste of time.
1I	I learned a few things, but the amount learned probably didn't justify the time spent.
2I	The course was fairly helpful. Some of it may have been tiresome review or the course may have moved somewhat slow, but it was worth the time.
3I	I learned quite a bit! There is no doubt that this was an important course.
4I	This was among the most important courses I have had! What I've learned has opened up whole new vistas of thought. I highly recommend this course to everyone whether or not they're even going to school.

So, according the the SCR key, the hardest courses get a rating of 4W4D and the easiest courses get a rating of 0W0D. An easy but important course might receive a 2W2D3I while a hard course that wasn't terribly helpful might receive a 4W3D2I.

The "Why" column

The "Why" column of the table refers to what requirements the class satisfies. "CS" or "PHYS" means the course went towards satisfying the requirements for my Computer Science or Physics major. "MATH" or "PHIL" means the course went towards satisfying the requirements for my Math or Philosophy minors. "G1" to "G7" refer to different sections of the general education requirements. Anything that has a "-e" appended to it means that the course was an elective. If the why column is blank for a course then that course did not go towards satisfying any requirements for any of my majors, minors or gen eds.

UNDERGRADUATE ACADEMIC RECORD

Advanced Placement Exam
DEPT.	#	COURSE NAME	QH	GRADE	Why	SCR
MATH	225	Calculus 1	10	P	CS/PHYS/MATH	N/A
1994 Summer Session II
DEPT.	#	COURSE NAME	QH	GRADE	Why	SCR
HIST	100	Intro to Higher Education	1	P		0W0D2I
1994 Fall
DEPT.	#	COURSE NAME	QH	GRADE	Why	SCR
CMST	191	Fundamentals of Speech	4	B	G1	2W2D3I
CS	150	Overview of CS	4	B	CS	1W1D0I
CS	155	Introduction to CS Tools	2	P	CS	1W1D1I
CS	234	Algorithms and Problem Solving 1	4	N/A	CS	1W1D2I
ENG	112	Accelerated College English	4	B	G1	3W2D3I
MATH	226	Calculus 2	5	B	CS/PHYS/MATH	4W3D3I
MISC	101	First Year Experience Seminar	1	A		0W0D1I
1994 Winter
DEPT.	#	COURSE NAME	QH	GRADE	Why	SCR
CS	250	Algorithms and Problem Solving 2	4	A	CS	2W1D2I
HPER	103	Racquetball	1	B	G1	0W0D2I
HPER	121	Basic Weight Training	1	A	G1	1W0D2I
HPER	214	Standard First Aid	3	B	G6	2W2D2I
MATH	227	Calculus 3	5	A	G3/PHYS/MATH	4W3D3I
PHIL	240	Philosophy of Science	4	A	G4/PHIL	2W1D4I
1995 Spring
DEPT.	#	COURSE NAME	QH	GRADE	Why	SCR
CS	340	Data Structures 1	4	A	CS	2W2D3I
CS	399	C++ Programming	2	A		1W1D3I
MATH	218	Introduction to Discrete Math	4	A	CS/MATH	2W1D3I
MATH	329	Multivariable Calculus	5	B	PHYS	4W3D3I
PHYS	221	College Physics 1	5	A	G3/PHYS	3W3D4I
1995 Fall
DEPT.	#	COURSE NAME	QH	GRADE	Why	SCR
CHEM	212	Principles of Chemistry 1 + (Lab)	5	A	G3/PHYS	2W3D3I
CS	351	Intro to Assembler and Architecture	4	A	CS	2W1D4I
PHYS	222	College Physics 2	5	A	PHYS	3W3D3I
PHYS	332	Computer Organization	5	A	PHYS	1W1D3I
1995 Winter
DEPT.	#	COURSE NAME	QH	GRADE	Why	SCR
CHEM	213	Principles of Chemistry 2 + (Lab)	5	B	G3/PHYS	2W3D3I
CS	375	Software Engineering	4	A	CS	2W1D1I
PHIL	201	Classical Philosophy	4	B	G5/PHIL	2W1D3I
PHYS	223	College Physics 3	5	B	PHYS	4W3D3I
1996 Spring
DEPT.	#	COURSE NAME	QH	GRADE	Why	SCR
CS	420	Computer Architecture	4	A	CS-e	2W2D4I
PHYS	328	Electrical Circuits and Measurements 1	5	B	PHYS	4W3D3I
PHYS	333	Microprocessor Electronics	5	A	PHYS	2W1D3I
PHYS	340	Modern Physics	5	A	PHYS	1W1D2I
1996 Summer Session 1
DEPT.	#	COURSE NAME	QH	GRADE	Why	SCR
CMST	261	Public Speaking	4	A	G2	3W2D3I
ECON	201	Principles of Microeconomics	4	A	G4	2W1D3I
1996 Summer Session 2
DEPT.	#	COURSE NAME	QH	GRADE	Why	SCR
ACCT	201	Financial Principles of ACCT 1	4	A	G7	2W1D2I
ECON	202	Principles of Macroeconomics	4	A	G4	2W1D2I
1996 Fall
DEPT.	#	COURSE NAME	QH	GRADE	Why	SCR
CS	341	Data Structures 2	4	B	CS	2W2D3I
CS	412	Networking	4	A	CS-e	2W2D4I
PHYS	330	Analog Electronics	5	C	PHYS	4W4D3I
PHYS	451	Quantum Mechanics	4	A	PHYS-e	4W4D3I
1996 Winter
DEPT.	#	COURSE NAME	QH	GRADE	Why	SCR
CS	376	Operating Systems	4	A	CS	2W2D3I
CS	413	Advanced Networking	4	A	CS-e	2W2D4I
PHYS	430	Electromagnetic Theory 1	4	A	PHYS	4W4D3I
1997 Spring
DEPT.	#	COURSE NAME	QH	GRADE	Why	SCR
CS	445	Artificial Intelligence	4	A	CS-e	2W2D3I
MATH	330	Differential Equations 1	4	A	PHYS/MATH	2W1D3I
PHYS	370	Optics	4	B	PHYS	3W2D4I
PHYS	431	Electromagnetic Theory 2	4	B	PHYS	4W4D3I
1997 Summer Session 1
DEPT.	#	COURSE NAME	QH	GRADE	Why	SCR
CS	491	Practicum (only 4 QH toward CS)	8	P	CS-e	N/A
1997 Fall
DEPT.	#	COURSE NAME	QH	GRADE	Why	SCR
CS	415	Higher Level Languages (ROCH)	4	A	CS	2W2D3I
MATH	425	Numerical Analysis 1	4	B	CS-e/MATH	2W2D3I
PHYS	425	PHYS of Semiconductors	4	A	PHYS	3W3D3I
PHYS	460	Advanced Laboratory 1	2	A	PHYS	3W2D3I
STAT	318	Probability	4	A	CS(or 279)/MATH	2W2D4I
1997 Winter
DEPT.	#	COURSE NAME	QH	GRADE	Why	SCR
CS	467	Object Oriented Analysis	4	A	CS	2W1D4I
PHIL	230	Moral Theory	4	A	PHIL-e/G2	2W2D3I
PHIL	250	Symbolic Logic	4	A	PHIL-e/G2	2W1D3I
PHYS	420	Control Theory	4	B	PHYS	3W4D3I
PHYS	461	Advanced Laboratory 2	2	A	PHYS	3W2D3I
1998 Spring
DEPT.	#	COURSE NAME	QH	GRADE	Why	SCR
CS	435	Theory of Computation (ROCH)	4	A	CS	2W2D3I
ENG	223	Classical Mythology	4	E		4W2D3I
PHIL	120	Introductory Philosophy	4	A		2W1D4I
PHIL	330	Biomedical Ethics	4	B		2W1D3I
PHIL	202	Aristotle & Late Classical Philosophy	4	B	PHIL-e/G5	2W1D3I
PHYS	490	Robotics Laboratory	2	B	PHYS-e	3W2D3I

Summary of Letter Grades
GRADE	# I received	MEANING
A	40	4.0 * QH
B	18	3.0 * QH
C	1	2.0 * QH
D	0	1.0 * QH
E	1	0.0 * QH
P	4	Pass
I	0	Incomplete

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CUM GPA: 3.58/4.00
Computer Science GPA: 3.87/4.00
Physics GPA: 3.54/4.00