<p>I am a first year student at King's College London and I have an option to study for a year at Berkeley next year. I am absolutely ecstatic to come to Berkeley next year, as I've already been to California and completely fell in love with it. I am doing Neuroscience here in London and in order to come to Berkeley, I need to choose modules that Berkeley teaches that are similar to the ones taught in the second year here but I am completely clueless how to do it. Can someone explain to me how to find specific modules (rather than a whole biomedical degree) and where I can see their objectives so that I can pick the most suitable for me. I tried finding my way around in the website but I got completely lost and I do not know how picking modules is supposed to happen here. If someone could help me out, I will be so grateful!!!</p>
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<li><p>catalog.berkeley.edu has a list of all available classes you can take, ever. It also has their descriptions. Departmental websites also often have a course page that may have more in-depth description of classes. Undergraduate classes in neuroscience are offered under the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, whose departmental course page is here: [url=<a href=“http://mcb.berkeley.edu/academic-programs/courses/]Courses[/url”>MCB Course Information | Molecular and Cell Biology]Courses[/url</a>]. (Lower division courses are numbered 1-99; upper division are numbered 100-199; you probably want to take upper division classes, which are more specialized, intense and rigorous, and thus more similar to what you’d be learning at King’s in your 2nd year.)</p></li>
<li><p>schedule.berkeley.edu shows you what classes are available in each semester, and what times the lectures/discussions are at. It also gives you enrollment information: how many seats are there in the class and how many have already been taken. The Spring 2013 schedule is up, but the Fall 2013 schedule won’t be available until March next year.</p></li>
<li><p>You might want to use ninjacourses.com to help you plan your schedule – it’s sometimes difficult to keep track of all the different lecture times, so this helps you do it with the miracle of technology. (It comes up with varying timetabling possibilities for you, given classes you’ve selected, or tells you outright that that combination of classes is impossible.)</p></li>
<li><p>As for registering for classes themselves, I’m not sure about this. We students use telebears.berkeley.edu. However, as an exchange student, you might have a slightly different registering system… maybe other exchange students could shed more light on this?</p></li>
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