<p>As a upcoming freshman in the SFS, I was wondering what courses I should take. IT seems like everyone is registering for classes at this point, and I need your help. </p>
<p>Which classes/professors would you recommend ? How many courses ? Which courses are required ? Also, it says that every student at the SFS must take a language course and earn a certain proficiency level. I am fluent in Korean, and have taken Spanish in HS. Honestly, I know taking Spanish will help me master another language but if I want to earn a good GPA, I'd rather just stick to Korean... (and take the exemption test).</p>
<p>Any help would be appreciated. Thx :)</p>
<p>15 credit hours is the average. Before I can give you any course-specific advice, I need to know if you have any AP or other credit that will exempt you from some requirements. As for language, if you're native-speaker level fluent in Korean, then you can go ahead and place out of the language requirement when you get there. You can then take Spanish later on whenever you want.</p>
<p>I took:</p>
<p>AP Calculus BC (5)
AP Statistics (5)
AP Chemistry (5)</p>
<p>AP Bio (Unknown) , AP English (prolly didnt do well lol)</p>
<p>I'm so happy to hear that I can take that language test !! ^^ Yeah, I do want to take Spanish too.. but dont you think I should get it over with the first two years ?</p>
<p>dzleprechaun , were you in the SFS ? my screenname is armadantiger
what's yours ? thx ~~</p>
<p>hey, umm... in order to be "done" with Spanish it takes like 3 yrs, at least that's what they recommend, this is if you atke intensive. You should take Microecon with Levinson, Problem of God Ruf or Murphy, History of the Atlantic World take Rothman, he's awesome. Now, this may or may not be the clases you want to take, but these are the ones I took. Oh! And I took Hill for my proseminar.</p>
<p>armadantiger, my SN is the same as my CC name. I'm currently in the SFS. All those 5s are nice (the BC will get you 8 credits and knock out two full calculus courses) but aren't all that useful since there aren't any math/science requirements in the SFS. There are if you're doing STIA, but in that case I'm fairly sure that the credits you get don't get applied toward the reqs, they just force you into higher level req classes in exchange for some elective credit.</p>
<p>If you get a 4 or 5 on English that can get rid of some or all of the requirements, but barring that you'll probably want to get to work on the SFS core.</p>
<p>First class is obviously Prosem. Go with what interests you because if you're into the topic, it can be the best class you'll have all year (mine was).</p>
<p>If you're looking to get your Spanish up to proficiency level, then you should go ahead and start right away. Taking it at the intensive level means 6 credits per semester with class every day plus a lab period once a week. This means that you'll only have 4 classes under the standard 15-credit workload. The extra work more than makes up for it I'm sure, and it does count double on your GPA so it all evens out basically (except for the fact that it only counts as 1 class and you still need 40 3-credit or above classes to graduate).</p>
<p>Depending on your last name, you'll take either Problem of God or Political & Social Thought first. There's a ton of PoG sections always since it's a class that basically everyone in the university takes. There's a few in particular to stay away from (Douglass comes to mind, and alot of people I know seem to dislike Vincent Miller) but for the most part I'd fit this one around the schedule you want to construct.</p>
<p>For PST, you have fewer options and those vary by semester so it depends on which semester you're gonna be taking it.</p>
<p>To round it out (assuming you're taking intensive spanish) I would strongly suggest taking Econ. You need to get it out of the way anyway and you certainly don't want to end up with D-minus Browd 2nd semester, so go ahead and take Micro. People seem to be high on Levinson and down on Shwartz. Levinson guest-lectured for my class once and seemed good. I had Yun and liked him but his tests were pretty hard - the only reason I had as easy a time of it as I did was because I had taken Microecon the last semester of my high school year and so I already knew most of the basics.</p>