<p>I’m used to a heavy workload, but I’m a little concerned that I’m taking on too much. The Critical Review says that HISP0730 shouldn’t be too much work, and CHEM0330 should be pretty manageable because of my previous experience. Thoughts? Thanks as always.</p>
<p>Guys - my advice for Freshman year would be to take advantage of all that Brown has to offer with the Open Curriculum and shopping period (the concept that you may visit as many classes as you like for the first 2 weeks). Go through the Shopping Cart and Critical Review and add any course that you think may potentially interest you, and then go to at least one class. See if you like the prof. and their teaching style. Look through the syllabus. Examine the work-load and times. Get a feel for the class atmosphere. Explore the academic areas you haven’t had a chance to try in High School, and see if they interest you. I have found that the courses that are most enjoyable and engaging don’t become fully apparent until after you have shopped them. One of my favorite courses last semester was one I had no intention of taking, until my friends convinced me to try just one class, and I loved the prof and the atmosphere; I was hooked.</p>
<p>@pkm2232: your schedule is on the more intense end of freshman fall schedules, but it’s doable (I had a similar schedule in terms of workload, and I ended up fine). If you’re a prospective CS concentrator, you should probably take CS 15 for a grade, but maybe HISP0730 is a candidate for S/NC? There’s no shame in taking a class S/NC if you have three hard classes along with it, I assure you :).</p>
<p>I question the value of taking CS15 S/NC, since failure to turn in a working version of any program results in an NC for the course. Taking it S/NC just doesn’t seem to add much utility.</p>
<p>Here’s what I’m thinking for an undecided probably international relations/econ major</p>
<p>Chin 0100 - Basic Chinese
Econ 0110 - Principles of Economics
Eng 0450 (FYS) - The Simple Art of Murder
Hist 1972 - Old Skeletons, New Closets: History, Myth and Nation in Southern Europe and the Balkans OR Anth 0110</p>
<p>1972 is definitely not a course number that you’d see in a typical freshman fall schedule. However, I’ll paste an excerpt from the Critical Review here:</p>
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<p>The course has no pre-reqs. Shop it. Talk to the professor if you need to. If it seems manageable, go for it. If you think you’d be better off taking it a year or two later, that’s an option as well :).</p>
<p>The other classes seem fine. Chinese is intensive, though, so be prepared for that.</p>
<p>Hist 1972 may be one you should shop as an S/NC course: you may do very well, but it’ll give you the peace of mind to treat it as a course you can experiment and try hard and sometimes, fall flat in.</p>
<p>Hello again, everyone! I posted on here a while back, then did some revising and took into account my (nonexistent) first FYS lottery results. I only chose spring FYS courses in the second lottery, so this is the current plan for the fall:</p>
<p>ARAB0100: First-Year Arabic
ANTH0110: Anthropology and Global Social Problems: Humanitarianism and Human Rights
ANTH0310: Human Evolution
POLS1430: Roots of Radical Islam</p>
<p>I plan to double-concentrate in Anthropology and International Relations. The Human Evolution course is designated WRIT, so that means that I will get feedback on my writing, correct? How does this schedule seem?</p>
<p>Also, I have a question about the VISA0100 lottery. I want to take this in the spring - should I enter the lottery this summer or is that only for the fall semester?</p>
<p>Thank you! Is it really difficult to get into VISA 10? If it is, I should probably enter for this semester too and just rearrange things if I get it.</p>
<p>I heard that Roots of Radical Islam is a fantastic class – I’m pretty sad that I can’t take it this semester because of a clash. However, all four classes in your schedule currently correspond to Anthro/IR concentration requirements. Don’t do that! Drop one of the classes other than Arabic (I firmly believe that if you’re considering IR, you should start a language freshman fall because it’ll just make life a helluva lot easier for you) and experiment with something in its place. I assure you that you’ll have sufficient time to fulfil requirements in later semesters, and who knows – you may even change your mind about one or both of your intended concentrations.</p>
<p>Hmm… okay. I was thinking that I should take one of the core classes for both of my intended concentrations right away to make sure that I like them, and Roots just seemed fascinating. In the spring, I will hopefully have an FYS (none of the ones I entered in the lottery relate to either concentration), creative nonfiction, and VISA 10. </p>
<p>Is Roots of Radical Islam offered every year? Maybe I’ll take creative nonfiction in the fall then… so many decisions! I wanted to get it in this year in case it’s one of the every other year courses, since I might be abroad my junior year.</p>
<p>Hi I’m a prospective bio concentrator, and I’m thinking of:
BIOL0410 Invertebrate Zoology
CHEM0330 Equilibrium, Rate, and Structure
HISP0730 Early and Contemporary Writers of Spanish America
HIST1760 Political Movements in Twentieth-Century America (S/NC a good idea?)</p>
<p>I really wish chem wasn’t a requirement for biology concentration To spend at least three semesters with it and its labs <em>sigh</em>…</p>
<p>Also, does anybody know anybody who studied abroad in his/her sophomore year?</p>
<p>I have searched multiple sites, but none can seem to answer my question as to which chemistry course I should take during my first semester (I am an intended chemical engineering concentrator). I read on one site (<a href=“Home | Chemistry | Brown University”>Home | Chemistry | Brown University) that if a student scores a 6 or 7 on an IB Higher Level Chemistry exam (I scored a 6), that student is able to start with Chem0350 without taking Chem0330. However, I was looking at the Course Scheduler, and Chem0350 doesn’t appear to be offered during the Fall 2011 semester. My question is this: Should I still take Chem0330 even though it appears that I’ve covered most of the material in my IB high school course? Or should I not take a chemistry course this first semester and just wait for spring to take Chem0350? My worry though is that if I wait until spring I’ll have trouble remembering all that I learned in high school…</p>
I’m a prospective bio concentrator, and I’m thinking of:
To spend at least three semesters with it and its labs <em>sigh</em>…</p>