<p>My first semester's looking like a lot of Computer Science + Calc II + Honors Reqs. I need something not-too-stressful for balance's sake.</p>
<p>I've got a list of things that satisfy the requirement rounded up, but I'm interested in suggestions/experiences of others. Thanks!</p>
<p>My daughter loved the film noir special film topics course. But be warned - you will be reading lots of pages and writing long papers (along with watching cool films)</p>
<p>Try to find a course that sounds interesting. By chance I wound up in a course I enjoyed quite a lot my Freshman year. Don’t waste what could be an interesting experience because you want to take the ‘easiest’ course.</p>
<p>I remember I had trouble finding the class schedule when I was looking at classes for Freshman year, so here’s a link.</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.northeastern.edu/registrar/banner-schedule.html[/url]”>https://www.northeastern.edu/registrar/banner-schedule.html</a></p>
<p>Thanks for the link!</p>
<p>I’m not going for easiest, just something that’s different from the STEM classes. (Although a class with a ton of writing may not be the best idea with the rest of my schedule).</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity, have the upperclassmen registered already? A lot of the courses on the most updated PDF file (May 2013) seem to have disappeared. I’m thinking they may be full due to subject matter.</p>
<p>Yes, most students have already registered (registration is ordered based upon the number of credits you already have). However, kids change their schedules over the summer and things open up and close before September. Not all classes are offered every term - so not all classes in the list of humanities/arts core classes will be on the schedule for Fall 2013.</p>
<p>If you can in any way, definitely take Jazz Music with professor Price. you will not regret it. It is fun and an easy A. I am an engineering student who needed something to boost my other grades and this class was an easy A. The professor is great too and it was fun to learn about with live performances and listenings to everyday. I never cared for jazz but the class was enjoyable.</p>
<p>I actually decided I’d take Jazz over the weekend, after I went through all of the options, removed those that conflicted with the only available periods of my Honors classes (knocked out quite a few possibilities :/), and looked up professor reviews. </p>
<p>Problem is, there’s currently “pre-registration” going on by MAJOR (Note: mine isn’t one of the ones getting the form). I was under the impression that getting your classes was first come first serve based on when your Orientation is. Do all these random “pre-registrations” actually reserve spots for those students, or is it determined by earliest Orientation? </p>
<p>I was hoping to keep the class on the DL, but people were bound to figure it out anyway if I could.</p>
<p>The pre-registration would be for classes mandatory for the major- for example calculus 1 for engineers NOT electives. You should try to get one of the earlier orientations - I remember after my orientation( D-4th one) there were only about 35 spots left for jazz( out of 500).</p>
<p>Many people know jazz is an easy A so keeping it on the DL may be hard. A LOT of upperclassmen take it as a grade booster for the CORE.</p>
<p>However, a week into jazz, the professor added an extra 100 spots so if you don’t manage to get in over the orientation, try to add it in during add/drop period. Good luck!</p>
<p>In that case, I should be fine. I have a really early (mid-June) orientation session because I figured that’s when course selection would happen.</p>
<p>So I am getting the impression that freshmen are already signing up for classes? Do you sign up and then change them at orientation if needed?</p>
<p>I believe that pre-registration is done by the advisers for freshman to put them in required classes (for those majors that have strict requirements)? Then during orientation you meet with the adviser and finalize your schedule. (not that anything is ever really final as you can change your schedule if need be over the summer.)</p>
<p>Thanks! I was getting nervous thinking that I should have already been registering. I’m assuming that the advisors take care of most of that for the engineering majors since they have pretty strict requirements.</p>
<p>You guys have it right for how it works. Honestly, I wouldn’t stress out too much over choosing an orientation to get the electives you want. I heard the same thing but ended up having the August orientation because of the way my schedule for the summer worked out. I don’t feel like I missed out on anything.
You will probably have 1 elective slot to fill for your first semester. So if your top pick isn’t available, take a class to fulfill a different core requirement or a class for a minor. After your first semester you register like everyone else online based on number of credits.</p>