<p>has anyone taken art history50 or asia am 20
interesting/boring, easy/hard...?
and does PIC 10A fill up this fast every quarter? it closed before i even had my first pass=(</p>
<p>yeah, PIC 10a is one of the most highly sought after courses. </p>
<p>what’s ironic is that computer science courses ar Samueli are often half empty. Samueli is arguably one of UCLA’s weakest graduate/specialty school and yet it has the most footnotes and conditions for students. Engineering at UCLA is worse than at UCSD.</p>
<p>if you’re a freshman/sophomore working for a specialty, you have plenty of time to enroll. As an econ major, the specialty as awarded by my department for only 5 PIC courses and 2 specific econ courses that can go to your degree. just pick PIC 10a on your first pass.</p>
<p>after 10a and 10b and math 61, enrollment in other PIC classes slide so you can basically enroll in whatever you want.</p>
<p>Maybe you should consider taking it during the summer, if you can. There are plenty of spots available right now and it doesn’t seem to be filling up very fast.</p>
<p>How helpful is the computing specialization for an econ major? Is it worth the 5 extra classes?</p>
<p>TBH, minors and specializations have very little use for your career. By happen-chance, there are people with a strange combination of Major and Minor that fit into a job niche but those niches don’t come very often.</p>
<p>The reason I’m taking the Specialization is almost completely out of interest. I want to learn to design web pages. These are skills that I could take with me outside school. Without the specialization, I’d be taking 4 upper division Econ courses a quarter and set to graduate after 2 years and 1 quarter of study. (Note that I never said I was doing well, I’m just going fast.) I don’t think I can stand that much Econ. Staying for an extra quarter makes me feel as if I’ll have a more complete university experience.</p>
<p>The Specialization in Computing also comes with the perk that you get access to all the free MSDNAA software. This includes programs such as: Windows 7 Professional 32/64, Windows Vista Enterprise 32/64 bit, Visual Studio 2005, One Note, Visio, etc. I like downloading random free stuff onto my computer.</p>
<p>5 classes isn’t that much and this specialization gives myself an excuse not to take 4 upper division econ courses in 1 quarter.</p>