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- Determine your major’s requirements. For more information about the major and various programs affiliated with it, click here. Most of you are probably in the College of Letters and Sciences. I don’t think we have many A&A and TFT kids here.
- Look specifically at the lower-division requirements.
- Determine whether or not you have passed out of any introductory classes through AP or IB exams.
- Check out UCLA’s degree requirements.
- University Req (They are listed on the URL in the previous line just above.)
- College Req (CL&S, HSSEAS, SAA, TFT, Nursing, …)
- Department Req (This is essentially your major’s requirements - lower and upper division. Plus, there are other options involving specialized concentrations within the major or Honors related things involving your area of study. Consult your individual department’s website.)
- Check out the GE requirements for your individual school. Become familiar with the notation and the foundation areas and sub-foundation requirements.
- For a consolidated understanding of everything you need for completing your degree, go to URSA and click on “Degree Progress Report.”
- If you’re in the honors program, you’ll also need to be aware of those requirements as well. Click here for information about the College Honors Program (CHP).</p>
<p>By this point, you should be familiar with what you need for your degree. Now, you need to know how you’ll actually organize your courses --</p>
<li>Essentially, for most majors, your Orientation Counselor is going to recommend that you take 2 of your major requirements (lower-division) with a GE class. OK, so you know what you need to take for lower-division - how do you find your GE classes? Here’s a shortcut:</li>
<li>Click here from the Registrar’s Schedule of Classes website. This is self-explanatory.</li>
<li>You should look at your major’s requirements first in the Schedule of Classes before searching for a GE though.</li>
<li>Go to MyUCLA and select “Class Planner” on the left-hand side. Go ahead and select the GE/Major Classes/Foreign Language/English Comp. 3 classes and find the best possible schedule.</li>
<li>Remember to take into consideration your professors for the classes - multiple professors frequently teach the same class within a quarter especially if it’s a huge lecture introductory class. For this you can consult BruinWalk to get an idea of what they’re like.</li>
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<p>Here are links:[list]
[li][Registrar</a> Schedule of Classes](<a href=“http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/schedulehome.aspx]Registrar”>http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/schedulehome.aspx) [/li][li][List</a> of GE Requirements by School](<a href=“http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/ge/]List”>http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/ge/)[/li][li][List</a> of Requirements by Major](<a href=“http://cis.ucla.edu/studyarea/]List”>http://cis.ucla.edu/studyarea/)[/li][li][Information</a> About Being Pre-Med and Pre-Law](<a href=“http://www.career.ucla.edu%5DInformation”>http://www.career.ucla.edu)[/li][li][BruinWalk[/url</a>][/li][li][url=<a href=“http://www.ursa.ucla.edu%5DURSA%5B/url”>http://www.ursa.ucla.edu]URSA[/url</a>][/li][li][url=<a href=“http://www.orientation.ucla.edu/]Orientation[/url][/list”>http://www.orientation.ucla.edu/]Orientation](<a href=“http://www.bruinwalk.com%5DBruinWalk%5B/url”>http://www.bruinwalk.com)[/list</a>] </p>[/li]
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<p>Clarifying points? Questions/Comments/Concerns? More topics? Suggested articles? There was a beautiful thread written by VTECaddict a few weeks ago about dorming options.</p>