<p>Please post your proposed/first-choice Fall 2005 schedule. Also, please list the course control numbers you chose if you feel like being nice. Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>Personally, I will try to stick to the recommended Math 1A/Chem 1A/Phys 7A/CS 61A/Humanities courses, but I doubt I'll be able to get into all of them without overlapping.</p>
<p>which engineering are you?</p>
<p>i'm undeclared, so i'm still trying to figure out what to do</p>
<p>Thats a lot. Can you even take 20 units?</p>
<p>I'm in EECS, but keep in mind that the first-year courses are quite similar for all science/eng majors.</p>
<p>I can't take 20 units -- I meant 4 of the 5 (whichever ones I can manage to get myself into) for 16 units, the recommended number. Sorry for not making this clear.</p>
<p>im doing mechanical engineering. i took a level physics yet berkeley won't give me advanced standing for those. they have the option of advancement by examination. where can i get the syllabus for physics 7 series?</p>
<p>miqdad, if you took alevel physics, and alevel maths (hopefully further) with quite a bit of mechanics, then you should definitely try to skip the first 1-2 semesters of physics</p>
<p>im mech eng and im thinking...</p>
<p>math 54/physics 7a (unless i get 5 on physics c test)/engin 28/ possibly some humanities course</p>
<p>eecs:</p>
<p>cs61a
physics7a
math 53
humanities/bs ss course</p>
<p>Eng--Undeclared:</p>
<p>Math 53
Phys 7B
Eng 77
Eng 92--Seminar
Humanities: Probably Literature in English (45C)</p>
<p>Do you guys think that's too much for the first semester at Cal? My parents sure think so.</p>
<p>BTW- Has anyone taken Literature in English (45C)? I'm really curious to know how hard it is and how much work it requires. Thanx.</p>
<p>what's eng 77? also, something else i was confused about, can the second half of the reading and composition requirement also be used as the american cultures requirement?</p>
<p>KupMup:</p>
<p>The 45 series is a weeder for prospective english majors. It would be quite a bit of work compared to another humanities course. If you are engineering, you may just want to do a freshman seminar in humanities instead (1 unit, P/F, barely any hwk).</p>
<p>nbanyk: eng 77 is a computer programming course.</p>
<p>calkidd: Thanks for the heads up! I think I'll rethink my humanities class. BTW, did you mean taking a couple of freshman seminars in humanities or just one? If one, then how should I satisfy my humanities requirement? I want to stay away from the generic R1A/B English classes. What are/did you take? Do you recommend anything in particular?</p>
<p>i wanted to try and take a history course but nothing fit - this is how mine looks right now: </p>
<p>math 1a, chem 1a, eng 92, comp sci 61a, psych 1</p>
<p>Just take one. You have four years to satisfy your humanities requirement. I didn't do R1A/B so don't have any input on those, except I know they require a lot of time b/c they entail many assignments (based on roomates' experience). Taking one of these might not be such a bad idea, though, since you get a lot of feedback on your work - more so than in many of the upper division humanities courses, surprisingly. I took Religious Studies 90A, which was pretty well done. </p>
<p>The most important factor in any humanities class is the teacher - something you'd normally consider mundane might be quite stimulating if taught by someone really engaging (example: folklore, which Alan Dundes used to teach). Look in the student guide for professors who won the teaching award and try taking your intro humanities courses with them. As far as freshman seminars go, I'd just take one. You will want a lot of free time in the middle of the day for homework, etc. </p>
<p>Finally, remember the option of doing summer school at some point - if necessary, you can drop one of your classes.</p>
<p>I never see summer school as a way to take a smaller workload, but rather a complement to get a course out of the way to take even more classes next term.</p>