<p>Depends on what your interests are, how hard you work, how you get along with your professor, how good your writing skills are, etc etc etc.</p>
<p>Chinese language classes are not GE classes.</p>
<p>Wait, so if I want to take a language and I am an engineering major how do I take them?</p>
<p>You just register for the class, then go to it.</p>
<p>But…in the sample schedules for an engineering major there doesn’t seem to be room. My major is 128 credits or something so that’s 16 units/semester by my math. If Chinese classes don’t count as GE, then will it even be able to fit in my schedule?</p>
<p>^ Your 128 units includes your major requirements, general education requirements and some electives. For even more flexibility, your flat-fee tuition covers up to 18 units per semester (so 144 units over 4 years), and excellent students can take up to 20 units per semester through the Academic Achievement award [USC</a> Academic Achievement Award | Undergraduate Education](<a href=“http://undergrad.usc.edu/renaissance/achievement_award.html]USC”>http://undergrad.usc.edu/renaissance/achievement_award.html) . There will be plenty of room for Chinese classes.</p>
<p>Are there any classes marked “free elective” in your course plan? If so then you can use those to take whatever you want. I’d also advise you to load up to 18 credits in your first two years, so you’ll have a lighter load junior and senior years.</p>
<p>Just make sure that, when you’re taking elective classes (like Chinese), you’re not inadvertently eating up units in your semester that could be applied to classes for your major or GEs. Freshman year, I screwed up big time by taking two non-major/minor and non-GE classes and had to take two GEs in a summer session to graduate on time.</p>
<p>Your advisor can help you with all this – but I guess it’s hard when you’re not going to orientation. I guess you can discuss this on the phone with them before the first day of classes.</p>