<p>Hello all. I need a little help in finalizing my schedule before Monday's orientation. Yes, I know it's late but I completely forgot about it until a few days ago.</p>
<p>Here's what it looks like so far:</p>
<p>Major: Biology</p>
<p>BIOL 1000/1101/1102 4SH
CHEM 1211/1212/1213 4SH
MATH 1251 Calculus & Diff Eq 4SH
____________ <----- NU Core or Elective</p>
<p>All of those courses are reqs for bio majors so I need to pick one more NU core or elective. Right now Im deciding between Intermediate Spanish, African-American Studies, Foundations of psychology, and Games and Society, which are all 4SH adding up to 16. </p>
<p>I feel like PSYCH would be a really cool class to take along with BIO, but I just don't want to be overwhelmed. Anyone know how much work there is? It would fulfill the Social Science NU core. </p>
<p>Spanish would also be a great option as I have taken it in HS, but it's not a NU core class which I would like to take.</p>
<p>African American Studies would also seem like a cool class to take because it's so different than my other subjects, and sounds interesting. This would fill the Social Science NU core</p>
<p>My last choice is Games and Society. Like, AAS, it's a nice deviation from my other rigorous Science courses. But it also seems like a joke course. It would fill the Arts/Humanitites core.</p>
<p>Sorry for writing for so much, just a big dilemma. Anyone have any suggestions or comments?</p>
<p>I’d probably take psych… it’s not very much work, and if you like it there are a few interesting psych courses (psychopharmacology, psychobiology) that you could use to fill bio electives. </p>
<p>There’s also no rush to fill lots of core requirements, so if you really want to take spanish, go for it. </p>
<p>As far as African American studies and Games & Society… save them for later, I think. As you get older you have less choices in requirements to fill, and it’s nice to be able to throw in a random elective here and there.</p>
<p>Are we supposed to have our class schedules made up before we get there? I thought that is one of the things we do when we get there. I am in COE and think most of my classes are set in stone anyway (according to the COE’s website) except for 1 art/humanity elective. Any suggestions on a good one, by the way?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t even worry because once you get there you end up doing it again anyways. They really just wanted people to have looked through it all before hand but its not a big deal at all if you literally go in empty handed.</p>
<p>Do you go in and meet with your advisor privately or are you just stuck in a room with 20 other people when making your schedule? Also, is there a second writing course we should take the following semester in freshman year?</p>
<p>Well it depends on how many people are in your major but you definitely don’t go in alone as I’m sure there’s at least one other person in your major. I only had another kid because I’m in Philosophy. Personally, I didn’t find my advisor helpful at all</p>
<p>I was undeclared and in the honors program, and I met with an honors advisor one-on-one last year (maybe all undeclared students meet one-on-one?).</p>
<p>My friends who are undeclared or in GSP got a one-on-one session. I’m an econ major and it was like 10 kids with one advisor. Like what blinkangel said, some majors have pre-determined schedules and some majors have these schedules set for every semester you are at NU (like architecture and graphic design).</p>
<p>For pharmacy it was maybe 30 kids or so with one advisor, and then we had a professor and two upperclass students with us as well. But that schedule’s mostly set, it was just to choose electives if you were taking AP credit.</p>