<p>Yeah I just came back from orientation and everything with my schedule was fine. Then I checked bruinwalk about my professors and it was a horror story, so I made a new schedule. Anyone who has taken these classes before please help me out?</p>
<p>Original Sched:</p>
<p>COMM ST 10 (Intro to Communication Studies)
E&S 15 (Oceanography)
ENGL 85 (American Novels)</p>
<p>New Sched:</p>
<p>HIST 20 (World History to AD 600)
COM LIT 1D (Great Books)
MCD BIO 40 (AIDS and other STDs)</p>
<p>Differences: Comm st 10 is supposed to be very hard. Oceanography is also supposed to be really hard. Engl 85 is supposed to be all memorization, which is one of my weakest aspects. The first schedule also makes me have two finals on the same day.</p>
<p>The new schedule has all different finals days, and the topics are more interesting to me. However, the majority of the classes in the new schedule don't have professors listed on bruinwalk, so it might be a huge gamble.</p>
<p>Any insight? Unless someone strongly disagrees with the new schedule, I'm feeling pretty good about it ;)</p>
<p>comm 10 is fine. do the work and don't slack. at least it's interesting, which is more than i can say for other GEs like oceanography. to get a good grade, go to all the lectures (or have a friend who takes supremely good notes), take supremely good notes, go to discussion even though it's not mandatory, keep up with the reading. and you'll be fine. if, however, you have a bad memory, or care nothing about types of media, don't take it. but the first lecture is nearly all about dating, which is rather interesting. and suman is an easy prof to listen to. which counts for a lot.</p>
<p>i agree with dropping oceanography 15. find a better ls lab GE later. unless oceans happen to be your thing.</p>
<p>one thing, though- the comm 10 final isn't easy, so, if that's one of those classes that's the same final day as another, don't do that.</p>
<p>I thought Comm 10 was the hard one (and Comm 1 was the easy one). The problem with some of these classes is that UCLA has a few really competitive majors, and the pre-reqs end up becoming pretty cut throat (Comm and Poli Sci ring a bell). So I think they recommend to aspiring communications majors to wait and take it a bit later to try and get your best grade in the class. Thus a Freshmen who wants to be, say a biology major, can be in over his head with a bunch of Sophomore comm majors.</p>
<p>depends who you ask. if you're royally awful at memorization, it's hard. if you put your best effort it, you'll do fine. not an easy A, not meant for slackers, but i wouldn't say it's hard. challenging, but not hard like calculus or something. (of course, some people would say calculus is easy...)</p>