<p>Do we get physical course catalogs in the mail, or do we have to use the one on the website to map out our classes? The only course listing I've received is the Honors one, and I think it'd be much easier to go ahead and start planning before orientation using an actual catalog.</p>
<p>Good question…when are you going to orientation sselbor? It would be nice to plan before…</p>
<p>They do not make physical undergraduate catalogs anymore. They never really did have much specific information about classes anyway.</p>
<p>We had asked for one on one of our visits in April. We were also told they do not publiish them anynmore- everything is online. (“going green”)</p>
<p>July 23/24… feels like an eternity away!</p>
<p>does anyone know the website that lists the courses along with the grades that students received in each course?</p>
<p>also, how can you tell which courses are designated for honors only?</p>
<p>You can check ourumd.com . Its a great site that has all the prof reviews and the grade distributions. However, this isnt ALL the grades over every semester, most of the time its just the past 2 or something like that.
And Honors courses have a “H” after the course number. However, I’ve known several College Park Scholars students that have also taken the honors sections so if any Scholars students want to take to the honors section, you can just talk to the prof about it. Hope this helps!</p>
<p>You might also look around [Venus</a> | Venus](<a href=“http://www.sis.umd.edu/bin/venus]Venus”>http://www.sis.umd.edu/bin/venus) or testudo.umd.edu for scheduling. I will say, however, having just been to orientation, that it’s really hard to formulate a schedule until you’re there, with the OA’s and professional advisors explaining all the requirements. I wouldn’t worry about not having enough time to pick the right classes. The CORE and major requirements are explained to you on the first day, and then the advisors go over your prospective classes and you actually register on the second day. If you wanna try and make sense of all the requirements on your own, I wish you luck, I couldn’t. But I wouldn’t stress over scheduling till you’re actually there for registration.</p>
<p>[UM</a> Testudo | Schedule Of Classes](<a href=“http://www.sis.umd.edu/bin/soc?term=200908&crs=DEPT]UM”>http://www.sis.umd.edu/bin/soc?term=200908&crs=DEPT)</p>
<p>that gives the courses for fall 2009. click on a category to see all the courses, or enter a department in the box. To see honor courses, enter “HONR”. To see honors versions of classes, find that class and then look for a section with an H on the end of the course number, like chem135h.</p>
<p>If you’re very familiar with your CORE and major requirements (which you may be, if you put effort into it - finding CORE requirements is easy and finding your department/major requirements on the department’s home page is also quite simple), there is no reason why you can’t check out testudo.umd.edu to get a rough idea of what classes you want to take. Note that, for freshmen classes especially, more sections are opened for each orientation (so classes that appear full now may not be on your orientation date). </p>
<p>Venus is a scheduling program used by the university. This is also found on Testudo, under “records and registration.” You just plug in the classes you want and it’ll spit out possible dates/times, or tell you if it’s impossible to combine the classes due to conflicts.</p>
<p>However, orientation is the best advising you will EVER get in the course of your MD career. High up people from your department/school will be there, giving you great advice (as opposed to the random tool who you will get the following 7 semesters haha). At least that’s how it was for the j-school. You will have plenty of time to figure out what classes you want at orientation. I felt no time squeeze, anyway ;). They even made me fill out my entire four year plan <em>groan</em>. Haha.</p>
<p>(They do make physical catalogs still, though, fyi. I saw the one for Fall 2009 in boxes in the basement in Stamp, across from the co-op, sitting with the Diamondback and the City Paper. I believe they may also have them in the Mitchell Building, on the floor where they make your IDs. It’s all for the better that they are discontinuing this practice, though - looking in a book gives you no real time update about what sections of a class are open, whether it is full completely, etc. And as a freshmen many classes WILL be full since you registered last! Therefore always use the version online! The descriptions are identical. It would be virtually impossible to schedule from a book.)</p>
<p>Thanks to the last four posters. A lot of useful stuff’s there.</p>