<p>I am an incoming freshman beginning my first semester at Cal in August. Landscape Architecture is my current declared major, but I am also considering a simultaneous degree in either Comparative Literature or Film. Has anyone had experience with declaring simultaneous degrees at Berkeley? I am sure it will be challenging and it certainly seems daunting, but how difficult is it in actuality? Thanks for the help!</p>
<p>Whoops! Forgot to mention English as another possibility!</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s that hard to double major as long as you can handle it. Finish the prereq and declaring is not that hard. Hard part is if you could handle the workload!</p>
<p>simultaneous degree = 2 different colleges on campus (e.g. CoE + L&S)
double major = 2 fields in the same 1 college (e.g. English + Philosophy in L&S)</p>
<p>simultaneous degree programs on average are slightly more difficult b/c you need to satisfy each college’s core classes.</p>
<p>make sure you check out the websites and plan out your schedule in advance</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/downloads/forms/academic/ced_landscape-architecture-major-handbook_2012-13.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/downloads/forms/academic/ced_landscape-architecture-major-handbook_2012-13.pdf</a> describes the CED’s breadth requirements as well as the Landscape Architecture major requirements.</p>
<p>To do simultaneous degree with an L&S major, you need to fulfill the L&S breadth as well as the CED breadth. Both have reading and composition and 7-course breadth, but there are some differences. You must choose your breadth courses to fulfill both L&S and CED requirements (where they differ, you may need to conform to the most restrictive requirements, to avoid “wasting” schedule space), as well as fulfilling both of your majors.</p>
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<li>CED students cannot use CED courses for the 7-course breadth; L&S students can use their major courses for the 7-course breadth. (I.e. you can use Comparative Literature, Film, or English courses to the breadth since that is allowed by L&S and they are not CED courses that would be disallowed by CED.)</li>
<li>L&S students cannot use AP credit for the 7-course breadth, unlike CED students.</li>
<li>CED has much smaller lists of physical science and biological science courses for the 7-course breadth.</li>
<li>CED allows using second semester college foreign language (other than one’s native language) for the international studies 7-course breadth, but L&S does not.</li>
<li>L&S has a foreign language requirement, though most students have fulfilled it by completing the third level of high school foreign language or a passing score on a foreign language SAT subject or AP test. However, the Comparative Literature major has a higher level foreign language requirement.</li>
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<p>Thank you for all the info, repliers! It is greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>I noticed that many of the accepted breadth classes in CED cross over into L&S; can I use the same courses to fulfill the breadth requirements of both colleges? The landscape architecture major handbook says “in addition, CED students may not use any courses cross-listed with CED courses to fulfill breadth,” but I was slightly confused by the wording. Does that mean courses specific to CED such as “People and Environmental Design” or any course such as “Art 16: Intro to Print Making?”</p>
<p>Yes, you can use the same courses to fulfill both CED and L&S requirements to the extent allowed by the colleges.</p>
<p>Regarding the cross listed courses, you need to check those with a course number prefixed by a C, such as Political Science C139. Because this course is cross listed with City and Regional Planning C139 (City and Regional Planning is in CED), it cannot be used for any CED 7-course breadth requirements, unlike other political science courses (including those cross-listed in non-CED departments).</p>