Ha ha! I sent (yet another) email to the Graduate office at the Business school and a very helpful woman (finally) sent me a link to the schedule for Fall. I can’t even begin to express how happy this makes me.
According to the MSAcc requirements sheet that I received upon my acceptance, the first three classes I have to take for my Masters of Accounting are the following Pre-Requisites:
BUSN 6550 – Analyzing and Interpreting Accounting Information
ACCT 6030 – Financial Accounting
ACCT 6070 – Management Accounting
Apparently, when you get your undergraduate degree in Philosophy, having taken no accounting, business, or econ classes, they don’t let you skip the intro stuff. Who’duv thunk it?
Access to the Fall 2012 Schedule
According to the (super-duper, nifty, awesome) schedule I now have access to, these classes will run from August 20 through December 15 (Location TBD), and are being offered:
BUSN 6550
Thursday: 6:30 pm – 9:15 pm
ACCT 6030
Tuesday and Thursday: 5:00 – 6:15
ACCT 6070
Tuesday: 6:30 – 9:15
This is excellent news, because it means I can continue to work full-time while in school, which is really the ideal for getting my Master degree done with as efficiently as possible.
What My Fall 2012 Might Actually Look Like
As I was poking around the Business school’s page, I found the policies and procedures page which informed me that I should also allow “an average of seven hours of out-of-class time for study and group work per course per week.”
If I’m taking three courses, that means an extra 21 hours of out-of-class time per week, on top of eight-and-a-half hours of class time and 40 hours of work. Total: 69.5 hours a week (plus travel, although I may be able to use my 35 minute bus ride to do some reading/homework).
Which means that for Fall my schedule could look like this:
Monday:
7:25 am — Catch the bus to work
8 am – 5 pm — Work
5:08 pm — Catch the bus home
6 pm – 8 pm — Homework
Tuesday:
7:25 am — Catch the bus to work
8 am – 4:30 pm — Work
5 pm – 9:15 pm — School
9:25 pm — Catch the bus home (I can’t miss this bus, the next one isn’t until 10:25 pm)
Wednesday:
7:25 am — Catch the bus to work
8 am – 5 pm — Work
5:08 pm — Catch the bus home
6 pm – 8 pm — Homework
Thursday:
7:25 am — Catch the bus to work
8 am – 4:30 pm — Work
5 pm – 9:15 pm — School
9:25 pm — Catch the bus home
Friday:
7:25 am — Catch the bus to work
8 am – 5 pm — Work
5:08 pm — Catch the bus home
6 pm – 8 pm — Homework
Saturday:
9:30 am – 11:30 am — Pilates
12 pm – 4 pm — Homework
7 pm – 9 pm — Homework
Sunday:
6 pm – 9 pm — Homework
It looks a little intense, to be sure, but not really that much different from working two (or three) jobs, which I’ve certainly done before.
A Resounding Sense of Relief
I cannot even begin to express what a weight it is off my mind to know what my schedule might look like in the Fall. I know it’s four months away, and there’s nothing I can do about it between now and then, not really, but just knowing makes me feel so much more relaxed about the whole project.
Now I just have to meet with the adviser to makes sure he/she agrees that this is going to be the appropriate course of action, and then register for classes. That, and figure out what this Fall is going to cost. 
Stay tuned.
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