<p>I'm looking into Economics/PPS. What would be a good first semester schedule? So far I'm thinking Econ 51D, Math 41, a writing 20 class, and I'm drawing a blank for the last one. I wanted to do intro to PPS, but the class is already full. Any suggestions?</p>
<p>That is good if you are assigned to writing first semester. Just take a course which interests you for your last one. That schedule isn't all that difficult, so you have some freedom.</p>
<p>how do u know the class is already full?</p>
<p>I'd do an ACES search on the first year seminars just in case there's one that stands out that has spots available.</p>
<p>Do your FL.</p>
<p>oops, being in pratt I forgot about FL. You should just take that.</p>
<p>Good thinking. I hear a lot of them can be bad though? Like spanish apparently really sucks?</p>
<p>I know the PPS course is full from the course catalog.
<a href="http://www.siss.duke.edu/schedule/1220%5B/url%5D">http://www.siss.duke.edu/schedule/1220</a>
You can look through it to see what classes are offered, when, and how full they are.</p>
<p>oh thanks jefhoh!; I just got my blue book some days ago so I didn't know we were able to see the course catalog online..!..</p>
<p>I had a question about FL. Is any language you take, which is other than English, counted as FL or does it also need to be foreign to you specifically?</p>
<p>Courses are coded officially and the codes are not "personalized".</p>
<p>So even though I'm a native Hindi speaker I could take Hindi as a FL?</p>
<p>If a course is officially classified as an FL, any status you may have will not negate its classification.</p>
<p>Ok, thanks. :)</p>
<p>That does bring up the question of what "foreign" really means to a university with a student body, faculty, and staff comprised of many international folks. Perhaps things should be recoded as OTEL for "other than English languages." :)</p>