<p>For engineers, is it better to do P/NP or normal grades for humanities classes? What are the pros and cons of each?</p>
<p>For me, humanities courses are something that kept me sane, made me listen and read interesting studies and theories, allowed me to speak/discuss in class, significantly raised my GPA. And hopefully i’ll even earn a minor degree as I graduate. </p>
<p>I took all of the humanities classes as letter grade, but this depends how much you’re interested in outside of technical courses. I did find a number of people simply not interested/unskilled to do anything besides math and science…</p>
<p>I love literature and English classes in general, but I don’t know how well I’d actually do in those humanities classes. It’s something I’m interested in learning about but would rather not have affect my GPA. I also don’t want it to consume immense amounts of time because I also have to balance CS61A, Math53, and Physics7A with it.</p>
<p>In general I would letter grade it. But, for example, if I took a humanities class in the same semester as those 3 classes you mention, I would P/NP it.</p>
<p>Keep in mind you have a couple of weeks after the start of the semester to change the grading status of your classes (keep track of the deadlines, it may be different for each class).</p>
<p>Everyone I know P/NP’s their humanities. It could bring up your GPA but it can also drag it down. Plus when you get to upper div, sometimes there’s just no time to really care about that “other” class.</p>
<p>Terenc, what are your reasons for letter grading it?</p>
<p>I like the humanities as much as I enjoy CS, and it would probably boost my GPA.</p>