<p>Hey Everyone,</p>
<p>I was wondering what you guys thought about the class, Asian American Studies R2A. Is it hard? interesting?</p>
<p>What English classes do you recommend to satisfy the R and C requirement? Which ones are easy and interesting?</p>
<p>yeah im interested in this as well. I got a 4 on ap english test and i was thinking of taking english literature r1b.</p>
<p>If you get a 4 on the English Lit, then you'll be taking R1B, R2B, or R5B. The Reading & Composition (R&C) requirement go by letters (for the halves).</p>
<p>I recommend you check out:</p>
<p><a href="http://complit.berkeley.edu/courses.php%5B/url%5D">http://complit.berkeley.edu/courses.php</a>
<a href="http://english.berkeley.edu/courses...006R1A-R1B.html%5B/url%5D">http://english.berkeley.edu/courses...006R1A-R1B.html</a> *
<a href="http://rhetoric.berkeley.edu/courses_1A1B.html%5B/url%5D">http://rhetoric.berkeley.edu/courses_1A1B.html</a></p>
<p>And others in Celtic Studies, History of Art, African American Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, German, Italian, French, etc.</p>
<p>The individual department website has the course description of the class. That way, you can find a R&C class that interests you. For example, I'm enrolled in Italian Studies R5B that will look at Italian Art, translated readings, etc. It will use The Da Vinci Code as a way to whet our appetites for more formal readings.</p>
<p>*The descriptions are not online yet.</p>
<p>Though I recommend you find a back up for the R&C. They tend to fill up quickly, particularly for the "B" series.</p>
<p>Take the R&C classes which sound interesting to you and that will make it much easier.</p>
<p>OKay...so I shouldn't find the class with the easy teacher/easy grader? In high school, that's what we tended to do. We took classes according to which teacher taught which class, and we never cared about what we were interested in. As long as we could get that A, it was fine. So, you're saying, just find a class that I'm interested in. Don't take a class just because it's easy?</p>
<p>Yes, take a class that you're interested in and you'll do better if you enjoy the subject (since it is writing).</p>
<p>Sometimes, the easiest professor may not be the best professor.</p>
<p>Example: Emeriti Professor Jacobson in the poli sci dept may not be the easiest, but the students I talked to who recommended him says he's an incredibly sharp and brilliant person.</p>
<p>do you reccommend taking an RC that also satisfies a breadth, I saw only a couple that did that, linguistics and slavic i think, how hard are those?</p>
<p>eiffel, have you taken rhetoric? If so, is it writing-intensive? I was thinking of taking rhetoric if english r1b was unavaviable at calso.</p>
<p>GBread: I recommend you take an RC that interests you, and should it fulfill a breadth, FANTASTIC! That being said, you have plenty of time to fulfill your breadths and do your major requirements if you're in L&S (at least for most students) and plan carefully. This time issue differs if you opt to do more "exploring" than actually fulfilling requirements or if you don't pass a class. </p>
<p>BlueElmo: I have not taken a rhetoric R1B (though I am a rhetoric major); the rhetoric R1B courses are known for the intensive quality. Students that have difficulty in it tend not to understand that performing rhetorical analysis differs from literary criticism. All R1B's tend to be "writing-intensive" though they do vary in length and number of papers. I've seen some courses that require many "short" (5-7) papers, while some courses have three papers which get progressively longer until its somewhere between 10-12 pages. Regardless, take a class that interests you.</p>
<p>whats your take on freshman seminars or those l&s discovery courses (not quite knowledgable about those)? whats good about seminars or are they even worth considering for 1st sem courses?</p>
<p>Seminars are definitely worth it for the first semester because they allow a lot close interaction with the professor since the class size ranges between 15-20. Occasionally, they may fulfill a breadth as well. These seminars are an opportunity to do the exploring you may wish to do, without overloading on units (since some seminars are 1 - 2 units). That being said, any thing under 2 units does not fulfill a breadth.</p>
<p>L&S discovery courses are an opportunity to fulfill breadth requirements with classes that are especially tailored to students of multiple disciplines. For example, "Physics for Future Presidents" is qualitative physics intended for students in the humanities and social sciences. The class requires little math and focuses on the know-how of everyday technology. Visit: <a href="http://www.muller.lbl.gov/teaching/Physics10/PffP.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.muller.lbl.gov/teaching/Physics10/PffP.html</a> and check it out there.</p>
<p>Any opinion on instructors for Rhetoric R1A or R1B?</p>
<p>I've heard Benjamin Young is quite an excellent instructor (if he's teaching it).</p>