<p>As a transfer student to the College, i'll have to take LitHum, Art/Music, and Frontiers all in the first year - has anyone taken those 3 at the same time before and 2 additional classes, or if taking those 3 at one time would it be better to stick to only 4, at least for first semester...</p>
<p>lit hum is a lot of reading, frontiers is a joke, don't know about art/music hum</p>
<p>art/music hum depends a lot on the teacher and your personal music/fine arts background. I barely had to come to class for music hum, I just read the textbook, listened to the music, went to the opera / philharmonic with the class, and wrote my paper. Art hum involves more memorizing I think.</p>
<p>5 classes is definitely doable. I wouldn't start off with less, you could dig yourself into a requirements hole down the road if you do that. at the very least, start with 5 and drop one if it gets to be too much.</p>
<p>I talked with my advisor yesterday and she suggested I take 4 classes first term. I may sign up for 5 and then drop the fifth if it does turn out to be a lot. But she did say I'm slightly ahead in terms of credits for soph.</p>
<p>depends on what gets transferred and how many credits you get can actually get applied to graduation requirements. many majors have a huge number of required courses, so just having generic "non-tech elective" credits isn't going to help you knock those out.</p>
<p>normally i'd strongly advise incoming freshmen to start out slow, not overcommit, and be prepared for a huge jump in expectations (and the level of organization that's required of them). but this is a different situation, where you have less time to get on schedule. Taking 5 classes may end up being the difference between taking summer classes or 6 classes in a semester down the road, so I'd say plan for 5 and drop one if it's too much.</p>
<p>Im going to talk with my advisor tomorrow. I'm going to major in Poli Sci I think and i'll have 3 credits transferring over for it so that will knock it down to 18 needed over 6 semesters which works out well. Plus, I think I can use 2 major cultures requirements towards it and I expect to place well in foreign language. The thing is, i really want to be able to go abroad and I don't mind taking a summer class or two. I guess i'll see what she says.</p>