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<p>thestorm,</p>

<p>If Stern registration is similar to CAS, you should be meeting with your advisor and registering during orientation sessions. I think it is a good idea to have a tentative schedule and discuss that with your advisor. So your question in another Thread about required core courses for Freshmen year is a good one (look at the links I provided for you on that Thread).</p>

<p>Keep in mind others have indicated Albert shows a lot of classes as “closed” but they are actually blocked out to be reserved for registration during the various upcoming Orientation sessions for Freshmen. However, some courses are in fact closed due to earlier registration by upperclass students who need these to graduate. They should have enough of the larger classes open for Freshmen, though others have discussed getting on waitlists, if necessary.</p>

<p>Each course or class, lab or elective will generally be worth 1-4 credits, more often 3-4 credits. Though some classes, i.e., lab (required with a Science course) or elective, can be 0 credit (look at the School Bulletin).</p>

<p>By the way, you have paid up to a maximum of 18 credits a semester with your tuition and fees. (Taking any additional credits over 18 credits/ semester would have to be paid for beyond the stated tuition and fees and is not recommended due to the heavy course load involved). GENERALLY the courses are 4 credits for the required core, so you would end up taking 4 classes (4 credits each), and you might use other credits for electives. This depends on how heavy are course load you are prepared for.</p>

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<p>Stern student actually register for classes online via Albert starting June 14 at 10am. This doesn’t account for higher lever mathematics, microeconomics, or statistics, so you’ll work that part out later in July.</p>

<p>Here is what the website says:
“Please register for a full course load on June 14, then change your schedule to accomodate higher-level math, Microeconomics, or Statistics as necessary after scores are released in July.”</p>

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<p>So I just signed up for CAS orientation, but their website says that I should bring:
1.Your Orientation registration and payment confirmation
2.Your Orientation invitation with directions to NYU
Will those be sent to me by postal mail?</p>

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<p>@ anyone who knows stuff about MCC.</p>

<p>what are some of the best classes/teachers you would recommend new MCCers to take?</p>

<p>thanks</p>

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<p>Olzhas, As I recall now, you are an international student, so it is probably not too convenient for you to call NYU directly for info. I am not sure if the procedure is different for domestic students. I will check with my son to see what correspondence he has received re: Orientation procedures and paperwork. If he is unclear, I will call the Admissions office on Monday.</p>

<p>If I get clarity on this, I will get back to you on this thread.</p>

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<p>yo, MCC representing here. i think i’m the only MCCer on here. bear with me, i’m graduating next may, so i’ve taken a ton of classes. </p>

<p>about me, and why i chose the classes i did:
my specialization “fields of study” are “images and the screen” and “global and transcultural communications”, on paper. in real life, i am interested in gender and technology, and i am also a gender studies minor in CAS. i’m biased towards technology and more “theory” based classes.</p>

<p>hokay. so there’s four core classes, and those switch off between being taught as a lecture + TA small group or just a regular class that meets twice a week with no TA small group (recitation). if you can, take anything with jacob gabourey or song chong. i think victor pickard is teaching media studies this fall, TAKE IT. i heard he’s great for media studies.</p>

<p>professor ted madger was the head of our department until last summer, but he’s great if you are interested in television or entertainment business in general. aaron cohen is a guy who is totally hooked up when it comes to media business (he was recently featured in NYMag). professor ben kafka teaches ‘history of media’ classes. professor gabriella coleman is AMAZING if you want to learn about computer hackers or the internet. we met moot from 4chan! along with reading and watching some amazing stuff about the history of the internet. professor mark crispin miller is a great film professor, but he can be a tough grader. james devitt is a great public relations teacher because his day job is being one of NYU’s public relations people.</p>

<p>awesome classes: </p>

<p>video games: culture and industry, ESPECIALLY if jacob gabourey is teaching it. video games was an awesome class in general, but jacob is a great guy. </p>

<p>copyright, commerce and culture: surprisingly useful and GREAT if you are thinking of possibly going into law some day. </p>

<p>hacker politics and culture: IF it is being taught. i know professor coleman is going on sabbatical, but if you love computers or the internet, it’s an absolutely amazing class. </p>

<p>gender and communications: i wouldn’t take this freshman year, unless you are super open minded. i’m not being condescending, it’s just that there are a lot of sophisticated concepts and even as a junior, i had trouble with some of them. however, if you’ve ever wanted to know more about reality tv than you ever wanted to know, take this class. contrary to what some guys in the class thought, it is NOT an easy A, and many of them dropped midway because they weren’t prepared to, you know, learn.</p>

<p>advertising and society: i constantly refer to stuff i learned in this class in all of my other classes. super useful even if you are not interested in advertising. </p>

<p>in my opinion, you should split the cores, one a semester. i doubled up on two of them and it was kind of redundant. i would do: </p>

<p>1) intro to media studies
2) intro to human communications
3) intro to media criticism
4) history of communications</p>

<p>mainly because each class is kind of different, except for studies/crit. </p>

<p>and, that’s it! don’t worry if a certain class isn’t being offered in a semester, it usually shows up in the rotation eventually. i waited FOUR semesters for Hackers and it was so, so worth it. i also waited for video games. MCC is a great department and they’ve improved it so much over the last five years. </p>

<p>good luck!</p>

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<p>Wow, MAP^,</p>

<p>Your program sounds terrific! So good in fact that I wish my son can minor in it (he plans to go into law and politics so political science is his major right now). In light of all the talk about big bucks for undergrad education, at least, your education appears to be top-notch, wouldn’t you say?</p>

<p>(Not to dispute the cost of a NYU undergrad education. I have my own axe to grind with the high cost of college education, but it is more at the macro level where I feel that change needs to take place in our institutions and larger systems. So often, the middle class is not represented. I feel we need educational cost reform, like health care, financial reform, etc. It is unconscionable that one year of private college is almost equal to the median income for a family of 4 in the USA. Unfortunately, it is not on the radar yet and it is also not a significant national movement, though many middle class families are squeezed terribly in this regard. Sorry, I digress here. Must be the lateness of the hour.) Time to call it a night. Thanks for sharing your experience as a MCC major.</p>

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<p>I think for MCC, NYU is worth it, to a point, obviously. (i would NOT go into monumental debt for an MCC degree, to be honest.) media is really one of the fields where a big name makes a difference. internship coordinators have remarked positively about my NYU degree, and i was hired at a big tv company for an internship without an interview, based on the strength of my resume and NYU name behind me. (it helped that the person reading my resume was ALSO an NYU alum.) i’ve found the old adage to be true, alums take care of their own. </p>

<p>i wish i could stay at NYU for my doctorate, but alas, i cannot. it really is a great program and a big success story for Steinhardt, i believe. our departmental motto is “be the message, be NYU Steinhardt” and it’s very true.</p>

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<p>This question was probably already asked somewhere here, but as an incoming CAS freshman how many credits/courses am I allowed to take of the 18 credits towards my major? Like how many should be MAP courses and how many can I pick on my own?
I plan to pick one Honors/Collegiate seminar as well.
Please let me know, any help appreciated, I hope to have some idea of what classes I want to take before orientation starts.</p>

<p>Also, if I am considering entertainment law what would be a good major at CAS? I plan on Journalism but that is a required double so I would need another. And I plan on minoring in Law and Society. What would you guys suggest as my second major? I do NOT want Politics though…
THANKS EVERYONE :D</p>

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<p>Honestly? Nothing in CAS. Media, Culture, Communications in Steinhardt allows you to minor in Law and Society in CAS and you would get a lot more exposure to how the media industry works. There are classes in public relations, copyright law, entertainment business, and we are also allowed to take Stern classes.</p>

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<p>Olzhas,</p>

<p>I mentioned I would get back to you upon talking to the Orientation staff at NYU. SO here is the email I received back from them. (Look upthread to find your previous post and questions:</p>

<p>The NYU Email Confirmation will be sufficient as confirmation of registration. If you have a receipt of the payment, it couldn’t hurt to bring a copy, but both of these documents are really only used in the rare instance in which we have the student listed as unpaid, or not listed as part of the Session they are attending. If you would like, I could double check the registration and payment status for both students, so that you will have both sets of information just to be safe! If you would like me to do this, please give me the names and ID numbers for both students!</p>

<p>As far as the Orientation Invitation goes, I don’t think it’s important for students to bring them, but if you still have your copy, it’s not a bad thing to have around!</p>

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<p>thanks,
then i’ll just print email confirmation and bring it with me.</p>

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<p>Olzhas,</p>

<p>Have fun and enjoy your session! My son will be attending next week (Session A, first session). He is excited, especially since he will be done with classes by that time. “A little sad to leave with all the work he put into H.S. academically and with extracurriculars.” Hehe, no senioritis for him. He has still been working hard and apparently keeping his highest GPA this semester. He is looking forward to NYU very much and hopes to get into Founders with his chosen roommate!</p>

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<p>@missamericanpie</p>

<p>thank you so much for all the information, i will definitely make them useful</p>

<p>also i had another question:
how likely is it to get more scholarship money from NYU if you had a really great freshman year grade-wise?
because my mom wishes for me to transfer to columbia my second year because she thinks we can get more money (financial aid) from them, that is assuming that i have a perfect freshman year at NYU to even be admitted. but i really like the MCC program and NYU, so i was wondering if NYU would give sophomores more money if they did extremely well their freshman year.</p>

<p>thanks</p>

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<p>because of travel plans, i wont be able to go to the june or july orientation for Steinhardt…will that put me at a disadvantage for signing up for classes/teachers that i want?</p>

<p>i know i can sign up through albert, but i really have no idea what i am doing, and it wouldnt allow me to do it without the approval of my advisor, who i dont even know yet</p>

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<p>bumping the thread for freshmen going to Orientation.</p>

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<p>this is unrelated to orientation and sorta random, but do you know what the general opinion is of the art history and english departments at NYU or anyone who is majoring in any of those two fields? I heard that the english department was a “joke” and “complete mess” (which sounds pretty harsh :confused: ) on one of the threads…</p>

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<p>I am really interested in the BPE (business political economy) program… any current student apart of it?</p>

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<p>I just posted this as a thread, but maybe you could help me out (not about orientation, just general)</p>

<ol>
<li><p>I applied for low-cost dorming, but in my application I also applied to room with this one girl I met online. We have all of the same dorming options (like dorm preference), but its just the two of us (we never found a 3rd roommate because we started searching late). Will this decrease my chances of getting put in a low-cost triple?</p></li>
<li><p>When your living in a low-cost triple, does each student still get their own desk, or is there no room for that? Is there room to de-bunk the beds?</p></li>
</ol>

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<p>I know for LCTs, every student does get a desk, dresser, etc. I don’t know about the bunking situation, some rooms it just isn’t possible.</p>