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Hey all,
I've een on a year long sabbatical from from UNM - I am studying English and Computer Science there. Unfortunately, I won't be able to get back to UNM as soon as I had planned, but I would like to continue taking some relevant courses.
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I've been looking at CNM and I would like to ask anyone out there that is currently or has attended this school what it's like? Anyone taking English or Computer Science courses? How were they?
I understand that this college tries to prepare the students to eventually transfer to UNM; I attended the Los Alamos branch of UNM and I found courses there quite challenging and their offerings generous.
CNM is very decent in my limited experiences there. When I was still in undergrad engineering, I took many of my math prerequisites there. I found the math instruction there to actually be superior to UNM, and the professors were just as accessible as professors are at UNM. If you still have some math to do, I would recommend taking at least those. I also had a friend who took his introductory programming courses there and he did much better than I did at the similar courses at UNM. That was long, long ago, but It may be something to consider. You can also call CNM if I remember correctly for advising over the phone or schedule an appointment, which might be the best option to take to be able to get a full-view of a track you can take with transferrable courses. There is a schedule of classes on the CNM website that transfer directly to UNM, it'd be wise to consult that list as you plan classes and you should probably get an updated list of the required curriculum at UNM in case that curriculum has been modified during your sabbatical. All in all, though, I wouldn't hesitate to take courses at CNM if they are both transferrable and pertain to the UNM degree plan (or even if there is just something else that seems interesting as CNM classes can be very affordable!).
Like most community colleges nationwide they don't pay their instructors particularly well so their long-term instructors are a mix of those who do it for the love of the job and those who are unable to get a better gig. Fortunately, there are a lot of people in the first group and a fair chunk of those are folks who are actually working professionals in their industries. CNM also draws a lot of UNM graduate students who may not be there for many years, but are hungry and fired up and in the process of developing the courses they'll go on to teach at four-year colleges a few semesters down the road. I agree with those who have posted above but I'd also caution that it varies depending on the program you're interested in. In any case, though, the price is right when you compare similar courses at UNM.
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