<p>Can anyone give me their opinions on the classes listed below? Obviously I'm only going to pick four (and maybe one 0.5 class), so I need some help narrowing down the choices. :)</p>
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<li><p>SOCIAL 110 (formerly SOCIAL 10): Sociological Inquiry OR
SOCIAL 111 (formerly SOCIAL 11): Social Problems
-- which one?? </p></li>
<li><p>ICS 195: Comparative Approaches to Global Issues </p></li>
<li><p>CUL ANTH 101 (CUL ANTH 94): Intro to Cultural Anthropology
-- I was thinking of taking this because it's easy and can balance out the following class...</p></li>
<li><p>ECON 101 (ECON 51): Economic Principles
-- I'm considering majoring in Econ, so I'm taking this to be sure that I definitely want to do it.. if this class doesn't go well, and I decide not to pursue the major, I will have saved myself from all those calc classes. :D</p></li>
<li><p>CHINESE 101 (CHINESE 1): First-Year Chinese I
-- should I take the seminar or lecture? if no to seminar, then which seminars do you recommend??</p></li>
<li><p>WRITING 101 (WRITING 20)
-- I'm interested in: Science of Food Choice; Who Cares and Why; Stories of Freedom and Action; Print, Pictures, and Power; A Loving Science: Method, Desire; The Question of Gov't; The American Culture Wars; World Music Post-Digital World </p></li>
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<p>Also... what are some easy classes that cover the NS, QS (if I decide not to pursue econ), STS, and R requirements? =</p>
<p>I know this post is really long, but I would really appreciate if you can all give your opinions! :)</p>
<p>my best advice would be not to get too attached to any of these classes if you have the 2nd or 3rd registration window, especially writing 20/freshman seminars. I had the third window and had to redo my entire schedule when all my first choices filled up. that said, I would recommend the culanth, I haven’t taken it but I know people who have really enjoy it. it’s a very typical “college” course, a thought-provoking subject that you probably didn’t get any exposure to in high school.</p>
<p>2nd’ing what flamants said… don’t be too sad if the classes you want fill up! Freshman are the very last ones to register, so, naturally, sometimes changes have to be made (but also know that you have a decent chance of getting of waitlists!)</p>
<p>Even if your classes do fill up, email the prof and ask for a concession. They are usually more than willing to accommodate a few extra students.</p>
<p>While professors do have certain leeway in overriding ACES and getting a few extra people in the class there are hard constraints that sometimes even they have to abide by. For example, lab courses are limited by the amount of physical lab space that are available. For some classes such as writing or seminars the point is to facilitate active class discussion through small class sizes and those classes may be assigned relatively small classrooms (regular conference room sized rooms) so it wouldn’t make sense to add even a few more people. So even though it never hurts to email and ask the professor, don’t expect to always prevail. </p>
<p>My advice is to check out which of your desired classes or teachers are most popular (ratemyprofs, etc) and how many seats are there available. Then based on your registration window have 1–3 alternative sets of schedules picked out so that you can swap them in or out on the fly should things not work out for your first choice.</p>
<p>Thanks for the suggestions and the heads-up! I’m going to try to find a few more classes. Does anyone know any easy classes to fulfill the NS, STS, and R requirements? I’d like to get them out of the way during my freshman year so I don’t have to worry about them later. </p>
<p>Cultural Anthropology 101 is a fun/easy class from what I’ve heard. Econ 101 is a big lecture weed-out course so only take it if your realllly want to do Econ. Chinese 101 is fine either way, but depending on your registration window/rest of your schedule, you may not have a choice. Writing 101 (20) classes for the fall can be viewed here <a href=“http://twp.duke.edu/uploads/media_items/fall-2012-courses.original.pdf[/url]”>http://twp.duke.edu/uploads/media_items/fall-2012-courses.original.pdf</a> . Many majors (including econ) require certain math classes so you should probably consider that as well. I dont know much about the first 2 classes you listed but you could consult courserank.com as well as ratemyprofessors.com , I consider them both to be excellent resources.</p>