Current students: any recommended classes?

<p>Any students out there have a recommended course load and/or courses that are popular? THX. (By the way, if i want to keep a 3.5 GPA, what do you think is too many courses? I'd like to take two languages, i dont know if it'll interfere...)</p>

<p>they say the beer and wine appreciation class is popular.</p>

<p>lol thats hiLARious!! WAIT....are u beign sarcastic? is that actually aclass? lol</p>

<p>yes its a class. and do your work. youre getting distracted. good day.</p>

<p>I SAID GOOD DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>

<p>lol oh yeah... forgot bout that. And I'm still not sure i believe u... that can't possibly be a class.</p>

<p>fine. dont believe me. now do your homework.</p>

<p>you better believe it. it's very popular among the seniors. :-)</p>

<p>Ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>

<p>yea its an actual class. its on my list of classes to take senior year. :) they have a similar class @ cornell. hahah. its supposed to be reeeeely hard</p>

<p>ill also be taking it senior yr. see u there. </p>

<p>and argentine.....is your last name something like tomasellio or something like that??</p>

<p>its tommasiello. like thatttt. lol. why?</p>

<p>hey, I'm a sophmore at cuse, I'm assuming you want the 3.5 to transfer into newhouse? I did that this past year, I would say don't take too many credits, I did about 16 or 17 each semester, and language classes are 4 days a week and can be a lot of work so that might be a bit much to take at the same time during your first semester.
ETS107 Living Writers is an awesome class I took to boost the gpa, all you do is read a few short books and take easy middle-school-level quizzes on them, so everyone's pretty much guaranteed an A. Let me know if you have any more questions.</p>

<p>thanks that's exactly the type of answer i was lookign for! ;D I want to keep a 3.5 GPA to transfer out of Newhouse and LSA to Visual Arts/Design. Anyone else have any reccomended first yr classes?</p>

<p>Yes, Beer & Wine appreciation IS a real class. But they do actually require you to do WORK (god forbid), and many people take it expecting to get drunk, and end up failing because they do not want to put some effort in. Of course, you'll need to be 21+, so it'll be a few years down the road.</p>

<p>Human Sexuality is an extremely popular course, and has over 500 people in it. Many people aren't even in the class - they go just for fun. Me and a couple of friends would sometimes go join a few other friends who were in the class - it was a great time. The professor really knows his stuff, makes the class fun and interesting (as you would imagine it could be), and yet crams in so much information. I wouldn't say its one of my big study interests, and wouldn't take it as a course, but it was fun to go to every now and then. If it is something that interests you, then I highly recommend it.</p>

<p>If you are into politics at all, I would HIGHLY recommend you take a course in International Relations with Professor Cooke [PSC 124]. He is a retired US diplomat and foreign-service guy - he is like your grandfather telling you stories - how he got drunk with Fidel Castro, yelled at Ethiopian dictator Haile Selassie, and attended the inauguration of President Kennedy. This guy speaks from first-hand knowledge and makes his class incredibly interesting. It is also very easy (I'd like to say it's because of his teaching skill (which is, itself, amazing), but he also grades quite easily, and assignments are straight-forward). He is definately one of the best professors we have, and will perhaps soon retire. He also teaches upper-division American Foreign Policy, which I'll be taking this fall.</p>

<p>If you enjoy philosophy, want to learn tons, and are willing to put some effort in, I would also recommend Professor Julie Cooper. In Fall 05 I took her specialty-offering, Religion in Modern Political Thought. She isn't the most interesting lecturer, but the lady is absolutely brilliant (a bit crazy to perhaps?). We read the major works in this area, from Machiavelli to Spinoza, Hobbes, Jefferson, Locke and Marx, to name some. Well, we were <em>supposed</em> to. I read perhaps 15 pages all semester. I did end up with an A- though, because I took diligent notes in class (sat front and center) and gave some thought to her lectures. They were informative enough that I could get a very decent grade without putting a whole lot of work in [I did put much thought into papers, however]. Yet another brilliant professor.</p>

<p>ooooooooooooooh. Machiavelli.......<em>drools</em>....i think i actually signed up for that human sexuality class. not sure....lemme check....<em>checks paper</em>.....wait.....idk if this is it but i signed up for "sexuality, genders, and bodies".</p>

<p>and argentine i asked for your last name bcuz i wanted to make sure it was your facebook picture where youre just standing there like "aaaaaayyyyyyy"</p>

<p>thx anarchy. Does anyone happen to know the difference tween GEO 272 World Cultures and ANT 121 Peoples and Cultures of the World? What's World Geography like? Interesting, difficult? What about HNR 250 The History + Natural History of Medicinal Plants/HONORS and Human Skeletal Anatomy? If I dislike math but want something interesting, is MAT 121 Probability and Statistics for the Liberal Arts I better, or STT 101 Intro to statistics? Is it overwhelming for freshmen to take more than 4 academic classes (counting a language)? Because I'm thinking of two languages, which leaves me with only 2 electives otherwise.. :( How's REL 101 Religions of the World versus honors? Any horrible teachers I should watch out for? (We DO get to pick our teachers dont we?) Are intro to world music and rise of global pop good? Will Professor Cooke be round for the entire year? Because then i could jsut take IR in the spring, when i get first registration and all. (If i manage to keep up my grades. Arg i want more classes but i dunno whether it'll hurt my GPA or not!) What's an interesting lab course to take? The choices are: Chem (ew), Astronomy one of two courses (but the book sneakily mentions that we may not get any credit for the courses!...?!), Bio,Physics I or II (is it fun enough to be worth the math?!), Dynamic Earth, History of Earth & Life, Earth System Science.</p>

<p>Yeah, I know, it's a ton of questions. XD I don't expect any one person to answer them all--even if they could. But maybe diff ppl will be able to answer diff things? :D</p>

<p>faleene how do u kno u can sign up for languages. my thing doesnt even say i can sign up for languages. maybe im looking at the wrong thing?? idk.</p>

<p>well it's on the list. u have to take the test first dont u? maybe that's why you can't see it, if your looking at something online.</p>

<p>Prof. Cooke only teaches in the fall usually, and in the spring he is out of town working on other things.</p>

<p>Unless you like chem, I would recommend you stay away from it. Dr. Vincow is a good professor (albeit somewhat hard), but really does try to teach well, and helps you when you need it. Astronomy is horribly difficult - as you can imagine, its a lot of memorization. The others I can't speak much to.</p>

<p>Only some of the languages have placement exams (French and Spanish I believe). The others you can just as easily sign up for. If you can't do it now, when you arrive in the summer (for Summerstart) or the fall, just visit the language's office (probably in HBC) on a weekday, right after you get to campus. If there is room, chances are you can get in. Just watch out for the French director, she can be a little evil sometimes</p>

<p>faleene - well one is geography and the other is anthropology. it seems to me you want to take everything (hehe). it depends on what you really want to do and not overload yourself. i'm just taking the MAX globalization elective which is pretty demanding but interesting -( since I hate science and most of the humanities courses and the other stuff bores me) and will probably join the literary mag. club to curb my creative side.</p>