<p>If a class has lecture, recitation, and lab, how exactly would you register? Do you register for all three parts separately or.....?</p>
<p>Also, I'm planning to major in BME. If I get a 5 in AP Chem, should I take chem 43L or 151L? Is 43L required for BME? Which one do first years generally take?</p>
<p>If you are talking about EGR53, then you must register for all 3 separately. Actually, I think you register for a lab section and that’s tied to a lecture section and then you have to register for a recitation separately. Otherwise, many classes have them bundled also. It depends on how the various departments want them. </p>
<p>As for chem, if you are not premed, I’d recommend skipping Chem 31/43. Because you will be required to take either Chem 151 or 32 in addition to your AP Chem credit. No use repeating courses. </p>
<p>If you are premed, note that AP Chem will give you 1 semester of gen chem and most med schools (read: probably all) require 2 semesters. So if you go straight into orgo, you may need to go back later and take Chem 32, which I believe is designed for post-orgo students anyway. </p>
<p>Regarding BME requirements, 43 is not required if you have AP Chem credit. You will be required to take either Chem 151 or 32 though, but like I said, if you are premed, you probably will end up taking both anyway. </p>
<p>(Source: <a href=“http://www.bme.duke.edu/sites/bme.duke.edu/files/Ugrad%20advising%20handbook_F11.pdf[/url]”>http://www.bme.duke.edu/sites/bme.duke.edu/files/Ugrad%20advising%20handbook_F11.pdf</a>)</p>
<p>When you look through the courses on ACES, you’ll see EGR53L (lecture) and then EGR53L9 (lab). You have to register for them separately. If EGR53 hasn’t changed since I took it last fall, there is no recitation - that’s just a typo in the Blue Book. also, take one of Dr. G’s classes - he’s much muuuch better than Simmons.</p>
<p>About the 43/151 deal. You can actually take 43 and then 32 and be done with chem for BME. However, if you want to do premed, you’d then have to take the two orgo courses after 43. There’s an all frosh class for 151, and it’s HARD, believe me - the test averages for those courses compared to the other non-frosh class and the 151 class in the spring were around 10-20 points higher. But on that none, the curve of the frosh orgo class is a B+ compared to a B-.</p>
<p>hmmm, I guess they did away with the egr53 recitation since I’ve taken it. My bad. It’s too bad though, I was a rec TA for a year, it was semi-useful.</p>
<p>They have hours when you can go in and ask for help, which is “recitation” now.</p>
<p>pffffffffft, we had those too. But recitation was something different, where you got a pset every week that covered all the concepts taught in lecture. It’s a good way to make sure you learn all that stuff. Oh well.</p>
<p>Oh really?
I wish they still had those. They sound useful for somebody like me who still barely knows how to code.</p>
<p>^ I concur, it was a good way to get people started on programming in matlab with someone to help them one on one without overwhelming the prof or TAs during office hours. I know for many, basic logic operations can seem daunting at first. But I’m sure they’ve got that all figured out anyway. IIRC, recitation was only really all that helpful the first month or so of class, after that, people kind of just banded together and formed hw/study groups to do lab reports and homework sets.</p>