<p>Hey everyone I'm pre-frosh and just starting to think about scheduling. I'm interested in something in the ppe/psci/ir area, but i'm very open to recommendations about a fabulous prof or intro course in any subject. Thanks for the advice!</p>
<p>"pre-frosh" what the heck is that? I keep hearing that term a lot.</p>
<p>on topic:i think penn will give us an advisor and then we talk to them about scheduling. their calender said something like mid july..</p>
<p>i'm enrolled in intro to american politics next semester(psci 130 i believe but i'm not sure) taught by John Diiulio, who is supposed to be a great prof, was in the Bush administration, but got out of there just before Sept 11 (smart move). I've heard nothing but great things about him and the class. Should have a good amount of freshman and sophs.</p>
<p>ya i was interested in that american politics course, glad to hear its good, thanks!</p>
<p>Take Econ 1 with Stein. Easily my favorite class at Penn so far.</p>
<p>My advice in general is to look at the graduation requirements for your prospective majors and look at classes that count towards graduation requirements and try to take classes that fulfill both.</p>
<p>is there a rule against 'double-counting' classes? i don't really understand what they mean when they talk about it on major/graduation requirement pages.</p>
<p>You can only have course double counted between a major and sector requirements unless you are double majoring or majoring in BBB, Biochem, or Bio. </p>
<p>When I started freshman year I thought I either wanted to be a Chemistry major or an Econ major, so I took chem 101 (physical world), econ 1 (society), chem 53 (formal reasoning), math 114 (formal analysis), and a writing seminar. All my classes fulfilled something and most of the classes I took went towards major requirements in fields I was looking at.</p>
<p>I thought psci 130 was taught by prof kettl</p>
<p>lol diiulio wrote the American Government book that we used in my hs ap gov class</p>
<p>freshman/writing seminar suggestions????</p>
<p>Pick a writing seminar with a good professor rating. I've had friends randomly pick a seminar and love it because of a good professor and friends who picked the one which description matched their interests the most and hated a crappy, tough professor.</p>
<p>Venkat is right, the professor matters most with writing seminars. The classes are so small that you'll really get to know them. And your grade just depends on how much they like you (oh, and I guess your writing).</p>
<p>so which are the good profs</p>