I plan on doing Mat Sci and maybe the joint major with EECS.
How manageable is this schedule? Especially Honors Physics and E45 in 1st year fall.
Fall:
Math 54
Physics H7A/7A (want to do honors)
E45
History Breadth Course (thinking 106A)
Spring Might Look Something like this:
Math 53
Physics H7B/7B
CS 61A
R5B
Got a 5 in BC and Physics C: Mechanics. Using 5 in Chem for 1A requirement and 5 in English Language for R1A.
Thanks for the help.
The course load looks fairly typical. Lab courses do require more time than non-lab courses, though.
You may want to try the old final exams for Math 1A, 1B, Physics 7A, and Chemistry 1A to be sure that you know the material well: https://tbp.berkeley.edu/courses/
MSE requires Chemistry 1B or 4B, but the EECS/MSE joint major does not. It is not obvious where Chemistry 1B may be a prerequisite for any MSE courses.
The College of Engineering does let you skip Physics 7A with a 5 on AP physics C mechanics. But try the old final exam before skipping. You may want to take Physics H7A if you have a strong interest in physics.
Math 1B at Berkeley contains some introductory differential equations material that you should self-study if you skip it and your high school calculus course did not include it. See https://math.berkeley.edu/courses/choosing/lowerdivcourses/math1B . Knowledge of this material will be assumed in the latter part of Math 54. See https://math.berkeley.edu/courses/choosing/lowerdivcourses/math54 .
For reading and composition courses, try looking at the department web sites. In some departments, instructors post their reading lists and themes for the courses, so you can try to get those whose readings are more interesting to you.
Thanks for the response. I think I will do H7A. I initially was unsure about E45 as well with its 7A pre-req, but since you said that its fine, I will keep to the schedule I listed.
If I wasn’t too sure about the classes I’m signing up for, I would go to 6~7 different classes in the first week, get the syllabus for each class and make the most informed decision from there. There’s several ways to plan your schedule and it’s hard to decide right away, and ‘shopping’ for classes each classes certainly helped.
As far as workload is concerned, just do it. If you think it’s rather too much after a couple of weeks, don’t feel embarrassed to back out of it.
Engineering 45 does list Physics 7A as a prerequisite, but if you got a 5 on AP physics C mechanics that the College of Engineering allows in place of Physics 7A, that should be fine if you remember your physics.