<p>Hey guys, i'm planning to double major in cs and applied math. i would like to know if someone who has done this could help me plan my schedule for my 4 years at cal. right now i'm planning this for the fall:</p>
<p>math54
cs61a
breathe
breathe</p>
<p>Contact the two departments to see which of Math 55 or CS 70 you should take, or if you can take either one.</p>
<p>Note that if you skip Math 1B with a 5 on AP calculus BC, you may have to self study some introductory differential equations material that is covered in Math 1B but often not in other calculus courses at colleges and high schools.</p>
<p>You also have the option of taking Math H54 instead of 54, and taking Math 53 and/or Math 55 or CS 70, in case that makes your schedule work better. You can also pile on the math courses this fall if you want to declare the math major early for scheduling priority reasons and to allow taking upper division math courses early.</p>
<p>For a four year schedule, you will need 7 lower division courses (assuming you skip Math 1A and 1B, and take one of Math 55 or CS 70) and 13-15 upper division courses for your majors, or 20-22 courses total. Since you will probably take about 32 courses, you will take about 10-12 other courses in which you can fit the L&S 7-course breadth (4-6 courses not covered by your majors) and R&C (0-2 courses, depending on your AP credit) and free electives. So it would not be difficult to fit the schedule together.</p>
<p>@ucb: I’m thinking about this. For applied math, can’t you use the 3 course cluster of CS for your CS major? For example, can’t those 3 CS courses that you take (upper div) count for both the cluster and the major? How would you do a CS/Applied Math major otherwise?</p>
<p>Even if you do not overlap upper division courses (e.g. if your applied math cluster has nothing to do with CS – e.g. statistics, economics, etc.), you should still be able to do both majors. Note that there is a limitation of two upper division courses that can overlap (i.e. if you take all three of CS 170, 172, and 174, then two of them can count for both majors, but one of them can count for only one major).</p>
<p>I see. Thank you.</p>
<p>Cool, I’m planning on doing the same double-major as you! </p>
<p>Anyone have experience with math classes in the major that are notoriously time-consuming?</p>
<p>Undergraduate math courses are not particularly time consuming (assuming that you are good enough at math to succeed as a math major), compared to CS courses with large programming or hardware design projects (e.g. 150, 152, 164, 184).</p>