<p>What are the best most interesting honors seminars?
Also how many classes would you recommend taking per week?</p>
<p>D really enjoyed From Hildegaard to Madonna: The History of Women in Music. However, her favorite was definitely “Llife, the multiverse, and everything: developing one’s individual cosmovision.”</p>
<p>Full time status is taking at least 12 credit hours of classes…I think you need dept approval to take more than 18. I’ve recommended to both my D’s to take it easy the first semester…get into the college stuff slowly.</p>
<p>as an honors student does it matter which orientation you pick ?? basically if i choose to go to orientation at a later date does that mean some classes might be already filled, etc. my 2 options are july 6th and 7th or july 16th and 17th… but i might be away the 1st week of july so im not sure</p>
<p>It’s best if you go to orientation on one of the Honors dates…they have a couple of special presentations. If you have to, you can try to talk them into letting you go to one of the non-honors dates. I don’t think they’ll let you go to one of the Scholars dates…a couple of years ago, D had some significant scheduling problems, and they were adamant about that. Supposedly, they hold some classes back to allow openings for later orientation dates. They let people register up until the time classes start. Just take a look at the CORE requirements and your major (if you know what you’re wanting to do), and go with SEVERAL course options in mind. Current students…what’s the name of the system where you can go in and enter courses to see all the possible schedules??? Doing that BEFORE you go to orientation really gives you a good idea of the possibilities (and you can see on Testudo how many seats are open for a given section…and see when new sections are open). When D1 went to orientation, I was amazed at how clueless so many of the students were…had no idea what CORE classes were, had no idea they were supposed to take the Math Placement test, had no idea what the progression of math classes was (and what they needed for their major)…I was frustrated at the number of questions that the parents asked of info that is readily available online. D said it was much worse with some of the kids’ questions.</p>
<p>The later the orientation, the greater the chances that you may just have to get up before noon to go to class :)</p>
<p>wait, are you talking about venus? cuz yeah, you can get to that off of testudo, records and registration, and of course, just look around testudo, and then… there’s a new one i think, but i can’t think of the name! any suggestions other current students? but i think venus should work fine :)</p>
<p>ourumd.com is great for that too.</p>
<p>Honors students can come to any non Honors orientation that is not a Scholars date.</p>
<p>Yes, both of those sites were what I was thinking of…most incoming freshmen aren’t aware of either sis.umd.edu/bin/venus or ourumd.com. Great stuff, and well worth the time before you go to orientation. (thanks moll and sbn)!</p>
<p>I was looking at the classes for next fall, why do so many of them already say fall. I mean some of the intro freshman classes are already fall, I am very confused</p>
<p>what do you mean they ‘say fall’? like, you found them under fall 2009 on testudo? because that would be the whole course catalog for next semester, which would be your first semester. Or if you’re referring to the course saying it’s only offered in the fall, that shouldn’t be the case for most of your classes, since most freshman start with intros and core… what website are you looking at?</p>
<p>cb098, did you mean ‘FULL’? because yeah, that might be true, but that’s because upperclassmen are registering for them right now, but don’t worry, they’ll open more sections this summer for freshman :)</p>
<p>sorry i meant to write so many of them are already full.</p>
<p>Yeah, for many intro classes, including honors seminars, there is a restriction on the amount of upperclassmen who may register.</p>