<p>^ It’s very much a linguistics based course. The readings we were assigned were very interesting and informed a lot of good discussions about a wide range of topics. The professors who were teaching it are some of the most important professors from the linguistics, Classics, and Romance Languages depts.</p>
<p>That sounds perfect! This course is staying on the top of my list, then, as far as HUM is concerned. Thanks for the exposition.</p>
Which books are required for 13500 and 13600(intro to humanities 1&2)?
You can look on the UChicago bookstore site and it will show the book lists for various sections. They aren’t exactly alike as I remember. The college catalog has a list but it wasn’t totally correct. Some profs post a full syllabus online if you search around a bit. The themes for the class were the same but there were some minor shifts in reading materials.
How do you get into Intro to Humanities? I’m guessing you have to rank it first, and then there’s a lottery?
@Lea111 I don’t think the class is offered every year…I don’t know of anyone taking it this year. But in general registering for HUM is a little different since you do it as a first-year during O-week with your adviser instead of by yourself on your computer. In my opinion, registration is one of the most stressful things during o-week. Basically you need to look at my.uchicago and determine which classes you need/want, organize the times and days so they don’t overlap, pick 2nd and 3rd choices that also don’t overlap, and hope the classes you want are open when it’s your time to register. You write all this down and you’re assigned a random day and time during o-week to come in to see your adivsor so he/she can register you for classes. Just fyi–registering on Wednesday doesn’t give you an advantage over registering on Friday for example–classes and sections are opened up at different points during the week. I know of people that came in wanting a certain section, their advisor telling them it was full, and by the end of the registration meeting that section was open. After that when registering for winter quarter and beyond you pre-register by ranking classes on my.uchicago and then the computer will assign classes based on an algorithm. If you’re not satisfied you can always try to get into a class during add/drop and can also try to pink-slip into a class.
It appears to be offered every other year, fall odd numbers (so no for fall 2016, but yes for fall 2017, if the pattern continues).
Thank you for the description of how O-week registration works - very helpful.
Can you explain pink-slip?
And I assume that these post-registration ways of trying to get into classes are also available to 1st years in fall - or is that wrong? Do you need to involve your advisor again for add/drop?
@Lea111 To pink slip in you basically have to come to the class you want to take and ask the professor if he/she will let you in. If they say yes they have to sign a form saying they’re okay with it and then you can be put in the class.
The post-registration stuff is available to everyone, even autumn first years. You don’t have to talk to your advisor about add/drop if you don’t have problems getting into the class/have all the required pre-reqs…if it’s a major change though you might want to talk with them about it.