<p>I was looking at the courses that CALS students can take to satisfy the designated 55 CALS credits and most of them are not that appealing. I thought that CALS students can take courses from other colleges to satisfy this requirement. All of these courses are science-oriented. I assumed that CALS students can art, history, english, politics, etc. to satisfy these requirements. Am I incorrect? Can a CALS student provide feedback? Thanks.</p>
<p>The 55 CALS credits are separate from the 39 credit distribution requirement (at least this is what is was for me).</p>
<p>Since you are studying in CALS, it would make sense that you have to take a good deal of science oriented coursework. You may study arts, history etc. to fulfill your humanities requirements. </p>
<p>Most of the biology course work you have to complete will fulfill the 55 CALS credits. I think you might benefit from a chat with the CALS registrar and/or your advisor once he/she is assigned to you.</p>
<p>Is there a list of all of the available CALS courses offered by Cornell, not just the Fall '08 courses?</p>
<p>A CALS course is any course offered by a CALS department (also includes biology and nutrition courses). You can check them out in the course catalog.</p>
<p>Dewdrop, can you discuss some interesting CALS courses that you too?</p>
<p>hmmmm....earthquakes (EAS 122), food choices and issues (fdsc 150), kosher and halal food regulation (fdsc 250), nutritional and physicochemical aspects of food (ns 345), sociology of health and ethnic minorities (dsoc 220).</p>
<p>These all have the old course numbers....</p>
<p>Anyway...these are just a small sample of the CALS courses I took. They were fun and provided a good distraction from the course work of my major.</p>
<p>Were exams/homeworks difficult?</p>
<p>nope...not at all. As a matter of fact I got an A+ in the 2 food science courses and A's in the other courses. </p>
<p>The DSoc class involved a 10 page research paper...but that was a piece of cake.</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity, what did you major in and overall, how many of those courses did you take?</p>
<p>Wow..I actually loved picking out my 55 CALS classes. I got the "Big Red Book" in the mail yesterday...I'm doing Meterology...and a class on Spider identification...and a class on "Avian Husbandry" where you take field trips...and another "Field Biology" class where you actually study and identify plants and animals in the field..</p>
<p>I love the CALS classes, lol</p>
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<p>I was a Biology and Society major. I had 21 courses that counted for CALS credit, but a fair number of those classes were also required for my major and 6 of them transferred from my old college.</p>
<p>shameless plug: Basic Principles of Meteorology</p>
<p>Can anyone recommend some easy CALS courses to take alongside a bio curriculum?</p>
<p>Any more easy courses? </p>
<p>Also, how do we know which courses fulfill the CALS cultural analysis (CA), historical analysis (HA), knowledge, cognition and moral reasoning requirement (KCM), literature and the arts (LA), social and behavorial analysis (BA), etc.? Thanks.</p>
<p>Most of those courses will be CAS courses, from my understanding. </p>
<p>Courses</a> of Study 2007-2008: College of Arts and Sciences</p>
<p>for example, notice how some of those courses show LA or HA or CA to the right of their name? Those indicate which course grouping they satisfy.</p>
<p>Is there a quicker way of searching for the requirements? Is there a way for me to select, HA for instance and have all of the courses that fulfill this requirement appear?</p>
<p>This 55 CALS credit requirement is breaking my balls. I should've applied to the CAS.</p>
<p>I sorta agree with you Caillebotte. Yet, if you are a bio major, most of your courses count within the 55 credit realm. Don't know if that is any help.</p>
<p>I am a biology major, so the requirement doesn't hurt too much, however, the non-bio CALS options are terrible. I mean, come on... Communications? Meteorology? I can learn that in my own time at the public library. I don't need to waste my precious $50,000/year credit slots with that crap. I need to take Latin, literature, and philosophy to augment my biology damnit.</p>
<p>If you are a cals biology major then you definitely don't have to worry about meeting the 55 cals requirement. What you have to worry is going over your maximum endowed credits.</p>