<p>I'm an incoming freshman enrolled in the MindBrain&Behavior program, and have a question about what my fall schedule might look like..
I'm a pre-med interested in psychology but I don't know if I should take Intro to Psych this fall since I'm in MBB as well, in fear of excessive overlapping between the two courses... Or would Intro to Psych be a very helpful enhancement and foundation-builder?
Because you see, I took AP Psych in high school, but since my teacher really, really failed to teach, I lived through the year by using short term memory to ace the tests, and now I retain almost nothing from that class... </p>
<p>Now I need to prepare a list of classes for registering during Orientation, and all I have so far is Chem111A&Lab, Calc III, and the fall course of MBB. I need two more classes, right?
I THINK I read somewhere that if you are in a First-Year Program, Writing I would be in the spring.. But I might've made that up. I believe it's up to WashU to randomly decide it? </p>
<p>Anyhooo, my main concern is Intro to Psych, and I also ask for your opinion for my remaining choice. I'm considering on some Bio (or Med-related) class or Physics 197, or should I choose something not so science-y to attempt to balance my schedule? </p>
<p>You are on the right pre-med track, so you definitely don’t need to burden yourself with any more science classes, unless you want to. I know pre-med kids who took bio, physics, calc, and chem their freshman year and did okay, but most people would not be ok with this.</p>
<p>as for intro to psych, i think the MBB program is supposed to either supplement or replace intro to psych. somehow the have intro to psych (also called psych 100b) in their program, so research a little into that and find out when you are supposed to take it. </p>
<p>as for how many classes you need: you are supposed to take around 15 credits a semester. to graduate you need 120 credits, which is 15 a semester. Each class is generally 3 credits, although chem lab messes this up a bit–i think its 2 credits. AP classes can count towards the 120 you need to graduate, provided you got a high enough score (however, i think you can only have 15 ap credits total). basically–you can go easy your first semester and take only 14 or even as low as 12 credits if you don’t want to find another class.</p>
<p>i’m premed and my first year to fill out that “last class” i followed the instruction of take something you never thought youd take–i went with microecon and hated it. just take a fun class if you feel like you need to take something. intro to human evolution is supposed to be good. </p>
<p>Did you take the Intro Micro class in ArtSci or the calculus-based Micro in the b-school? I was thinking about doing the same thing (taking Micro to fill my Tuesdays and Thursdays) but I decided on taking Western Civ (Hist 101) instead. Good move?</p>
<p>As I understand it, the PNP program has somewhere around 6 credits of advanced level psych classes. And these require psych 100b. I do not believe mbb replaces 100b at all.</p>
<p>In other words, unless you want a light schedule, you only need 1 more class, not 2.
I know nothing about writing 1 and how they have people take it (yay engineering!), but if they tell you to take it in the fall, that brings you to 15 credits and you’re golden.</p>
<p>If not, I’d just take psych 100b to get it out of the way. If there is overlap, great! I’ve found my classes always overlap at some point as an engineer, but it means you’ll really learn the material (I swear that at least 3 of my classes last semester all spent a week reviewing vectors, all at the same time… grrrr).</p>
<p>After that, you’re done (unless you want to take 18 credits, and that’s entirely your decision).
Also, for what it’s worth, you aren’t going to get into physics 197. That’s just not happening. There’s at least 13 people on each waiting list, and one of the waiting lists has 45 people on it. I doubt that any artsci students will get in at this point, with the exception of physics majors.</p>
<p>Also, I’m getting really sick of “washubear” spamming all these threads with plugs for the club vball team. Knock it off already.</p>
<p>If you are going to have to take psych eventually, why not do it now when you don’t have a strong reason not to. If you don’t see yourself ever taking it, then just look into a class that interests you. Also, it may be worth the time to point out that chem 111A is a pre-req to Bio 2960, so you don’t have to worry about taking bio either, at least not until second semester. Actually, I believe it is not even offered first semester, so that choice is kinda made for you!</p>
<p>I agree with Johnson and NW that you should take psych 100b if it’s not somehow worked in the MBB program. </p>
<p>As for the micro class, I took the arts&sciences one, not calculus based. </p>
<p>For western civ, a couple of people on my freshman floor took it and the general consensus was bad, except for one or two that liked history a lot. I think the most challenging part was the amount of reading–it’s a lot different than in high school where you have textbook reading and some supplementary material…instead it could be read 30 pages of a passage (primary source) in two days, which is incredibly boring and most of the kids just skipped the reading altogether. so if you are into history, then by all means go ahead, but i personally would not want to take a course like western civ that is such a big time commitment, especially in light of the fact that you are taking chem and trying to adapt to college. go with psych 100b.</p>
<p>I’d like to take psych but it’s a MWF class and it seems like all the pre-med classes are also MWF. I’m looking for a good T Th, but Western Civ is the best I could come up with.</p>
<p>Having several classes MWF isn’t a big deal, especially pre-med classes. It’s not as if the exams are given during class, so it’s not like they’ll stack up (because most intro classes like chem, calc, physics, and a few others have night exams).</p>
<p>Note, psych does have in-class exams, but they’re not a big deal.</p>
<p>Personally, I like stacking my classes if it means I get bigger breaks. I don’t particularly like spreading my classes out. If I could potentially do this, I totally wouldn’t have class on fridays (as it stands, I only have an hour on fridays this semester).</p>
<p>Well, I’m going to be a sophomore this coming year. Last year as a freshman I was in the MBB program and took Intro Psych in the fall. While I’m not pre-med, I thought I could weigh-in on this one. </p>
<p>While they do overlap, I would say MBB had a different overall focus than Intro Psych. I actually found the overlap pretty helpful; it gave me some extra review of concepts and definitely made some things easier. </p>
<p>In terms of Writing I, I believe everyone in my MBB class had it in the fall so I think you may be mistaken there. </p>
<p>I don’t know if I would take intro psych to balance your schedule (pretty similar to MBB), but as another poster already said, it’s convenient for higher-level classes later on if you plan on majoring in PNP.</p>