<p>When I was looking through the course catalogue for Fall 2010 on Brown’s website, I was excited by a number of the classes. Then, when I went to the banner web area to see when they were offered and add them to my cart, I could not find them. For example Phil 0700- Philosophy of Religion is listed on the course catalogue, but I cannot find it on banner web. Same situation for an FYS I was interested in. So I was wondering: Do these classes really exist? Why are they listed in some places and not others?</p>
<p>You’re likely looking at the list of courses, that, as of Fall 2010, could be taught at some point, not the list of courses offered fall term. My printed course catalog doesn’t list that as an option for this fall or spring. Only courses that you can add to the cart are available for the fall (Disclaimer: a few courses are bound to be removed and a few are bound to be added before the start of fall). The other resource at which you were looking is good for long term planning/concentration planning. It’s dated because courses may be permanently removed. In this case, the Fall 2010 and Spring 2010 versions will vary greatly because several departments are being merged into a new department at the moment.</p>
<p>Oh, okay. Thank you!</p>
<p>Similar sort of question:
Why do some departments like Psychology say “(no credit)” next to it? That can’t mean that all classes offered in Psych are not for credit-- but I don’t know what it does mean? </p>
<p>Also, will there be a separate mailing or notification of all the FYS choices or do new students just comb through all the on-line list of courses??</p>
<p>^The Psychology Dept. just merged with the Cog Sci, Linguistics, and Cog Neuro Dept. so every course that is (or once) offered in the Psych Dept. technically does not exist in the Psych Dept. anymore—only in the new CLPS Dept (Cog Sci, Linguistics, Psych). If you check out the Psych course offerings in that Dept, you’ll see that they do have course credit available.</p>
<p>I don’t think there’s a separate mailing with FYS choices–aside from the ones listed in the course catelog you will (or have already) receive. But I think last year they had a link with a list and descriptions of each FYS/CAP course offered. It was very easy to use; I just wrote down/copy-pasted the courses I was interested in as I went through the list.</p>
<p>Thanks AmbitiousMind- that does explain a few things!</p>