<p>I'm currently an admitted MechE major but am planning transfer into EECS (people I've talked to say it shouldn't be too difficult as long as I take EECS courses).</p>
<p>Right now my schedule looks like this
Physics 7A
CS 61A
Math 53
Humanities</p>
<p>From APs I should only have to take 4 humanities courses. Which ones should I take? What are the best R&C courses?</p>
<p>I'm mildly interested in econ for my humanities, but people say that econ courses are difficult and consume a lot of time. As for my R&C I'm thinking of taking either Film Studies or Theater, but my friends recommend German or Scandinavian because they're easier.
Thoughts?</p>
<p>Also I have CalSO coming up and was wondering which courses I should sign up for first.</p>
<p>For R&C avoid anything in the English or Rhetoric department because those are ‘real’ writing classes whereas the other kinds of classes are easier to get A’s in. It’s not that getting an A in English R1B or whatever is very difficult, it’s just more work than it needs to be for an engineer.</p>
<p>Your first semester is the standard entry EECS major schedule, but if you want to give yourself a break, there’s nothing wrong with pushing back Physics 7A and switching it out with an Econ class to make your life easier. The switching into EECS process is (more) dependent on CS61ABC and EE20/40 so just make you get those babies on your transcript. </p>
<p>Econ classes are more work than say a Political Science or Psychology class, but that extra work is a tradeoff for usefulness as an Engineer.</p>
<p>Economics courses, at least 1, 101A, and 101B, are about as much work as Math courses. I.e. not that much work compared to science and engineering courses that have labs, large term projects (which some humanities and social studies courses feature), or heavy computer programming.</p>
<p>Note that the breadth is “Humanities and Social Studies”; Economics, Political Science, and Psychology are normally considered social studies, not humanities (which would be things like English, Comparative Literature, Art, etc.; some subjects like History and various cultural or ethnic studies are kind of both).</p>
<p>Pushing back Physics 7A is not the best idea, since there are typically long prerequisite chains depending on it (note also that EE 40 lists Physics 7B as a prerequisite).</p>
<p>The last few professors who taught EE40 have said that you don’t need Physics 7B anymore. While it may be smarter to take Physics 7B before EE40, it’s not officially (unless the next professors say otherwise).</p>
<p>I would recommend u take an R&C or Econ 1 for your 4th class :)</p>
<p>+1 for Econ 1 or R&C</p>
<p>Take a philosophy or psychology/sociology class if you are one of the few people who can do math and do the opposite of math. Those classes are certainly not for everyone, but if you can handle it, I promise it will be worthwhile especially under a #1 psychology/sociology program in the world.</p>