<p>I am an Integrative Biology major and a music minor. I was huge on music in high school, and am still very serious about it. Berkeley is a great school, and is very well-rounded for the most part, but it’s music program is a little lack luster. </p>
<p>If you are a vocalist (like I am), then take chorus, because the director is a genius. The class also satisfies a music minor requirement. Having a music minor is really not very difficult at all, especially if you have any background in music theory. I can’t speak personally about a music major, but some of my friends from choir are music majors, and the major itself doesn’t sound difficult. However, a Berkeley music degree isn’t very impressive, since its music program isn’t very prestigious. </p>
<p>My music minor has allowed me to take classes outside of my major, and it’s been great because I get a minor for it. Berkeley’s breadth requirement also gives you a chance to take classes outside of your major. Most people take a language at some point, as well.</p>
<p>nosarcasm, thanks for the helpful response. :)</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m mainly a vocalist. However, I’m also an instrumentalist, and composer, and I’m interested in electronic music as well as world music.
Well, I’m not terribly concerned with prestige when it comes to music, more the knowledge and experience. Are there opportunities in the San Francisco area that might make up for a less-than-outstanding music department at Berkeley? </p>
<p>Cool, I love learning and I’m glad there’s room for taking classes outside the major. </p>
<p>I think I may double major. If you double major, do you have a minor as well? Or does the second major basically take the place of a minor?</p>
<p>I’m an incoming freshman with a boatload of experience composing, performing, and teaching music. I’m going into engineering though, and am not currently planning to take music classes, though a minor would easily be within reach. I’m thinking there will be plenty of opportunities to find groups to perform with/write music for.</p>
<p>I’m an incoming freshman this fall.
Is R&C Italian studies r5a an easy class?
Or do you recommend any other easy R&C course?
I passed my AP Lang. so I can skip it but I need one year of English for med school.</p>
<p>I have a question about the Korean 1A class. </p>
<p>This course has no restrictions at the coursewide level.</p>
<p>Seats have been reserved for:</p>
<ol>
<li>Instructor Approval; a Class Entry Code is required to enroll in these seats. (Open)</li>
<li>Students with a major of Chinese Language or Japanese Language (Open) </li>
</ol>
<p>Quite a few people have waitlisted. Does that mean I can’t just sign up for the class?</p>
<p>If those are the only two categories, then the only ways to sign up are:</p>
<p>1) you are already listed as a declared Japanese or Chinese major
OR
2) You speak to the instructor who, if they agree to let you into the class, will give you a unique entry code to enter into Telebears</p>
<p>Hi I will be transferring in this fall.
I am a Econ major too and am having a hard time choosing classes for this first semester…
So Stat 20 and Econ 100B are must taken, and should I take 1 more class? Or 2?
Can someone give some advice of classes I should take?
Phase II will be this weekend!!</p>
<p>I am currently an undergraduate student at UC Davis, interested in transferring as a City and Regional Planning Major (at the College of Environmental Design) at UC Berkeley. I was wondering, their department website states they have only 60 students in their major as of now. </p>
<p>I was wondering if this is because this major is very competitive and do not receive that many people or that it is simply not that popular as a major and thus has a small number of students in the major. Please help me get this straight. Thanks!!</p>
<p>i just signed up for the remainder of my classes for my first semester at cal, and i just wanted to see what you guys had to say about it. (maybe you all can put my mind at ease :P)</p>
<p>so i signed up for japanese 1A (thought it’d be fun), Psychology 1, Anthropology 2AC, and Native American studies. its a total of 16 units, which i hope isnt too much for my first term… jap 1 starts at 8 in the morning, and i’m not sure if thats too early or not… i could change it to 9 in the morning, but then i’d have jap, psych, and anthro back to back to back for two days of the week, and i dunno if thats a good idea. but yeah, any comments/suggestions to put my mind at ease? </p>
<p>oh, and in case you were wondering… i’m undecided on my major, and this term i’m looking into psych or anthro. :)</p>
<p>is there a maximum number of classes i can take at a community college, while still enrolled at cal? I was just wondering because my sister said at UCLA, they would only allow her to take two community college classes</p>
<p>When I go on websites like ratemyprofessor.com, some reviews say to be careful when picking GSIs for our classes, since sometimes they are the ones that do all the grading.</p>
<p>How are we supposed to choose GSIs if we don’t know which GSIs are teaching during each discussion time? Would it just be based on luck, since we sign up for discussions/labs based on time?</p>
<p>How hard is it to switch your major, from biology to something like business? What is the process? And how much does switching your major impact your credits or classes etc? </p>
<p>I’m new to this college thing so is there a thread that tells you what the abbreviations you guys are using stand for? Abbreviations like HASS, L&S, EECS, etc…</p>
<p>Most majors have some conditions, usually something pretty easy like having a 2.0 gpa. In addition,some are quite difficult to switch into. Haas and any of the engineering majors, basically. </p>
<p>The impact depends on how far you have gotten in the old major and how few or many of the courses overlap with the requirements of the new major. Breadth and AC courses carry over almost totally, but if the major is very different you could have to start at zero fulfilling the required courses before you can declare the new major. For example, if you look at Integrative Biology and at English degrees, you will find little in common. If a student banged out Chem, Bio, Math and then decided to switch, other than perhaps helping with some breadth requirements in the sciences, the student would be starting over taking various english courses necessary to declare an English major. </p>
<p>The most serious challenge is the total units limit. In the example above, both majors are in the college of Letters and Sciences. There is a 120 unit requirement to graduate but beyond just the total, you need specific types, based on your major and other requirements like the breadth courses. Once you pass 8 semesters at Cal, you can’t register once you hit 130 units total. Thus, switching too many times might make it extremely difficult to finish a degree if you hit this barrier.</p>
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