<p>Colin I also go to UB and I am a engineer,I really recommend you take Chem 101,102 instead of 107,108, Chem for engineers is a killer. So much extra work that is not needed.</p>
<p>goat4d, do you know people who have taken each course? I was told by a student at the honors poster presentation that chem for engineers was less work than normal chem. Is there a chem for majors that he might have been talking about?</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice.</p>
<p>I have 5 classes and I'm a bit nervous. I'm taking US History to 18-whatever, Japanese 1010, Psychology of Social Behaviour, Developmental Psychology and Introduction to Art. I think I'll be fine, but it may be a lot of reading.. I don't know!</p>
<p>Is each credit one lecture hour per week? Or one lecture/lab/tutorial hour? I'm not too familiar with the US credit system.</p>
<p>Most of the time it roughly correlates to how many hours are spent in class. Labs are usually less because you may need a lot of in-class time to run experiments and do a lot of your data analysis during the lab, whereas normal classes have an expectation that for every hour in class you're going to spend another 1-2 hours out of class doing homework/writing papers/studying/etc. So a 4 hour lab might really only equate to the amount of time you'd spend in and out of class for a normal 2 credit class.</p>
<p>Sounds about like my first quarter's load of 11 hours...which was Calc, Chem, Honors Engineering, Foundations of Ancient Civs (Honors English), and Uni Seminar and I came out with As and Bs. It wasn't too bad for me (but I probably could/should have done better), so I think you should be fine as long as you put the effort into it.</p>