<p>Hmm…I’ll think about it. I mean I really don’t know what major to declare as of now. Maybe I’ll know when I explore different classes. I have 2 years? I still have lots of time. Oh that’s cool about the new phsyc building! :)</p>
<p>twilight_girl09:
Yeah, don’t worry about it so much now. Enjoy your first year exploring! I mentioned in one of your other posts (I think) that I took Anthro classes and loved it. I think that if I was exposed to Anthropology in high school, I think I would’ve declared Anthro over my Film major now. But I do like both. I was also contemplating Religious Studies very seriously…</p>
<p>If you can’t decide on JUST one major and you want to avoid doing a double major, you can choose Interdisciplinary Studies as your major. In Interdisciplinary Studies, you choose two areas of concentration. More info: [UCR:</a> Interdiscliplinary Studies](<a href=“http://www.interdisciplinarystudies.ucr.edu/index.html]UCR:”>http://www.interdisciplinarystudies.ucr.edu/index.html)</p>
<p>And yes, the new Psych building is pretty awesome! New equipment, labs, classrooms, etc. I like the design (in comparison to other buildings on campus, anyway) too.</p>
<p>What will I study if I declare to be an interdiscliplinary studies major? I can study 2 majors at the same time?</p>
<p>My major is an interdisciplinary major, Public policy. Interdisciplinary major means that you have a bit of every major. For example my major is a mixture of Poli Sci, Econ, Sociology,Philosophy.</p>
<p>Oh I understand now. So I can choose two majors to concentrate in to explore which major I want?</p>
<p>some what but you got the idea. Its one major but it requires that you know a little bit of other. Its like five different minors equal a major in a interdisciplinary study.</p>
<p>Hello, I have a question regarding registering for classes. I registered for classes like normal at Bear Facts… but now I’m having some second thoughts about my schedule…</p>
<p>Are you allowed to just sign up for classes online right now? I kinda want to completely overhaul my schedule. I signed up for German, but I’ve realized that first quarter isn’t a good time to start a language for a pre-Business student. So I thought about replacing that with Intro to Computing or some film class. I also don’t really want to be in a learning community for my Business/English classes because of how crappy they made my schedule.</p>
<p>Any input/thoughts/suggestions?</p>
<p>I think you can change your schedule now if you want…</p>
<p>But I’m not sure about learning community</p>
<p>you have to call the the learning community to let a person that is wait listed take your place</p>
<p>twilight_girl09:
Interdisciplinary Studies is an actual major by itself. You have two areas of concentration, neither of which constitutes itself as a full, regular major. Otherwise, that would be the same as having a double major. It’s preferred that these two concentration areas relate. There are other majors that are interdisciplinary – pretty much the majors with the word “Studies” in them, especially all the ethnic studies. But every major draws on a lot of fields, more or less.</p>
<p>alecvdpoel:
I think you have to contact the learning community program (depending on which college you’re in).</p>
<p>I was in CHASS Connect, and they didn’t let people drop out the program who simply wanted a different schedule or because they didn’t like the class. Apparently there is a (invisible) contract holding everyone in the program. But then again, most who wanted to drop complained a lot about the class, were lazy and mostly failing and they weren’t able to get out. Those who did had personal circumstances beyond their control that they had to tend to (or so I heard).</p>
<p>I’m actually not sure which learning community I am in, I just saw it was an option when I was registering for my business and english classes, so it may be that CHASS connect thing. It isn’t as simple as going to GROWL and dropping it, and adding different English and Business sections?</p>
<p>Are you in CHASS?</p>
<p>There are three First Year programs (all essentially are learning communities) in CHASS:
- CHASS Gateway (one quarter long; for Fall quarter)
- CHASS Connect (entire year)
- CHASS First-Year Learning Communities (FYLC; for pre-business)</p>
<p>Go to GROWL and see which one you’re in. If you’re in CHASS Connect, it should show a lecture, discussion and workshop time.</p>
<p>As for your other question: You should be able to drop your non-LC classes. The thing is, I don’t know if registration is closed. I’m a second-year student. Even though I registered for Fall 09 in May, I’m unable to change any of my classes right now because my enrollment option is closed.</p>
<p>If anything, you can try to change classes during the Add/Drop period, which is about the first two weeks of the quarter. But that can be very hectic; good luck.</p>
<p>I am in CHASS, and I’m a pre-business student, so I’m pretty sure I’m in a FYLC. When I go to GROWL I am able to click Advising and Enrollment and choose Fall of '09 and see my classes and drop down menus for “drop” and such. Maybe this is because I’m an incoming freshman and Bear Facts Orientations are still going on? I have yet to drop any of these classes because I don’t know for sure if I’ll be able to add others and I don’t want to have to wait until some really inconvenient time to get new classes!</p>
<p>If you’re able to drop classes, then you’re also able to add them. growl is open for incoming freshmen until bfo is over. also, if you asked to be put into a fylc, then youre in it, otherwise you are not automatically placed into them. and even if you are enrolled in one, you dont have to drop all of your lc classes, just the ones you need to change, however doing so will exempt you from being in the fylc. </p>
<p>word of advice, double check to ensure classes you want to take have spaces in them before dropping anything. sometimes its nice having the fylc pick the classes for you, but by my 3rd quarter as a freshmen it wasn’t looking so nice so i dropped out by simply removing one of the classes on growl. i still had my lc lecture and discussion for one class, but removed/changed the other and was finally free!! haha </p>
<p>Hope it works out!</p>
<p>Okay so I got it at least a little sorted out. GROWL does not let me drop any of the Learning Community classes, so that is just something I’m gonna have to live with. But I was able to drop German and add Intro to Computing, which I am happy about. The only thing is that I have to make it from Life Sciences to the Humanities building in 10 minutes. Doable?</p>
<p>And also has anyone taken Intro to Computing and would like to share whether it’s super easy or what? I am a little happy because I would like to think that there isn’t going to be much studying for that course, at least not much compared to German, haha.</p>
<p>Apparently the UCR campus is really small, so you won’t have much of a problem getting from class to class</p>
<p>I’d say only way it would interfere was if the 10 minute break was around lunch time</p>
<p>alecvdpoel:
Ten minutes should be just enough because most of the classes are taught in buildings that are close to each other. Life Sciences to Humanities is pretty close. I’d say the farthest plausible walk would be from Pentland to the University Village theater.</p>
<p>I took Intro to Computing (CS008) too, and reviewed it in this thread: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-riverside/736855-recommended-professors.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-riverside/736855-recommended-professors.html</a></p>
<p>Thank you very much everyone I am not as stressed about it all!</p>
<p>I have a 3 hour gap in between classes, what should I do?</p>
<p>Calikillafornia same with me. I got the classes I wanted, but not the times they are all spread out in 3-4 hour gaps.I think i’m just going to go back to my room and hangout or just take a quick nap.Or go to the gym.</p>