<p>any ppl who are at uiuc right now, what classes do you recommend? what are some popular lectures, etc?</p>
<p>any advice for how to sign up for classes, how to vary the load/subject/etc?</p>
<p>You will get a lot of advice as to how to sign up for courses and vary load when you attend the summer orientation session, at the end of which you will register for classes -- and then find out that those you wanted are likely no longer available at the times you wanted because the class at the particular time is already full and you will madly go about redoing your schedule until you complete one that the computer accepts.</p>
<p>On gen-ed courses, one thing you should start studying is the on-line list of qualifying courses in five of the required areas -- humanities and arts, social science, western cultures, non-western cultures, and advanced composition. What you should look at closely is individual courses that meet more than one of those five required areas. Here is the way it works: as part of the campus gen-ed requirement you need to have 21 hours in those five areas -- 6 humanities and arts, 6 social science, 3 each in western cultures, non-western cultures, and advanced composition. However, if you plan correctly, you can actually meet that entire requirement with only 12 hours of courses. There are many courses that will satisfy at least two and some three of the required areas , e.g., certain 3 hour history courses satisfy the 3 hour requirement in humanities, the 3 hour requirement in western cultures and the 3 hour advanced composition requirement.</p>
<p>also your major or particular college may require you to take certain classes that can count towards your gen. ed.</p>