<p>Is it possible to enroll in graduate level courses (+200) while an undergrad student (in political science, if that matters)? </p>
<p>Also while on the topic of enrollment, are students able to take more than one junior seminar (not concurrently, during different semesters)?</p>
<p>I've perused the Berkeley website for the relevant policies, but have come up empty handed thus far. Any help would be appreciated.</p>
<p>Almost any grad course is possible if you can secure prof approval. To get such approval usually requires little more than talking to the prof's, for which they will want to be sure that you have a sufficient background to handle the work.</p>
<p>Yes you can. Just make sure that you have satisfied all the pre reqs and speak with the prof before enrolling in the class. To be honest with you, grad courses are "easier" than undergrad courses because in general:
1. you get less HW and exams
2. they trust you more (all excuses including "I was swamped with workload from other classes" count)
3. the grading curve is much more generous</p>
<p>You often times don't even need to have satisfied all the prereqs. I can think of several undergrads who got into grad courses without having fulfilled all the prereqs.</p>
<p>All you need is the professor's permission. They get you a CCN and, voila! Undergrad in a grad course.</p>
<p>Securing said prof's permission is when the other stuff comes into play.</p>
<p>of course you can take grad course as an undergrad. it is almost an unstated fact that one needs to take mostly grad courses in the senior year.</p>
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<p>In certain majors if you are trying to get into the top-5 grad schools in that major, that may be the case, Otherwise, that's not true at all.</p>
<p>I can think of quite a few former Berkeley engineering undergrads who never took a single grad course while at Berkeley, yet still went on to graduate school at places like MIT and Stanford, or stayed at Berkeley. Those are all top 5 grad programs.</p>
<p>Sakky is certainly right (my being a former EECS major, now math). Our EECS undergrad curriculum is very strong, and taking a strong program and doing good research work is the key to getting into top grad schools.</p>