<p>I'm a transfer student and I plan to take 13 units my first quarter. After making a rough schedule, I realized I can take 13 units every quarter until I graduate and still finish in two years. So I was wondering, will I have a lighter load than most other ucla students?</p>
<p>No, that is regular load. 4 classes is consider a little tougher than a regular load, but 2 classes is too light (unless you really want to go that route for a specific reason like its your last quarter or something).</p>
<p>What is recommended for first quarter of freshman year? 3 classes (~12 units) or 4 classes (~16 units)?</p>
<p>Usually, I think 3 classes is recommended; however, the courseload that you can handle really depends on other factors like your personality and the difficutly of the classes. I you are worried that you can't handle four classes your first quarter, then you can either take 3 or you can take 4 and then drop one before the drop without a notation deadline (I think that would be week 4). Just keep in mind that the first weeks of school are kind of chill and then at the end of the quarter, many instructors will cram material in because they are behind.</p>
<p>Note that the unit requirements will vary considerably depending on the major.</p>
<p>If you're taking an easy major, you can take a lighter load (3 classes) and graduate in a reasonable time, but on the other hand, if you're taking an easy major, it's easier to take a heavier course load (4 or sometimes 5 classes) due to the light homework/studying and you could graduate even sooner (or take additional courses, get a minor, double major, etc.).</p>
<p>If you're taking a difficult major (engineering, heavy sciences, etc.), the converse is true and if one wants to graduate in a reasonable time, they usually must take a heavier courseload (4 classes) and simply work much harder.</p>
<p>The average number of units a student takes is 14: half of the time, a student takes three courses (12 units) and half of the time, a student takes four courses (16 units). :rolleyes:</p>
<p>i dont get why everyone says an average class is 4 units. every humanities class i see is like 5 units.. and labs too.. the only 4 units are basic sciences and language (correct me if i'm wrong). so a north campus major would have at least 15 units a quarter... for example, my 1st quarter i will be taking 3 classes aka 15 units.</p>
<p>is pre-business econ considered an easy major? what classes should i be taking 1st semester fresh year and how many classes as prebus econ major.</p>
<p>No, it is not considered to be easy. However, as a first-year that should not affect your courseload.</p>
<p>what do you mean by that? are the prereqs hard or is the major hard in general after you've been accepted as a junior? as a freshmen, should i be taking like 1 prereq class and 2/3 GE's?</p>
<p>1 prereq class and 2/3 GE's would be perfect. I mean that bizecon is considered to be difficult within the realm of L&S. There are two weeder classes that will determine how comfortable you are with the major, and you will most likely take them in your sophomore or junior year, unless you already have credit for economics 1 and 2, in which case you could take them in your freshman year. How comfortable you are within those two classes will somewhat determine how difficult or ease the major is for you. Good luck.</p>
<p>so what are the two weeder classes if ill have credit for econ 1 and 2?</p>
<p>Econ 11 and Econ 101</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies. Another question: is Econ 41 (Statistics for Economists) generally considered a difficult class?</p>
<p>Guys, there's really no use worrying about individual classes now. Half of the difficulty depends on what professor you have anyway. When the time actually comes for you to take the class, see what professor you have and look him up on bruinwalk.com, which is an excellent website where past students post reviews of professors. That should help you a lot more than our opinions of how hard a class is. For the record, bus-econ in general is considered (among L&S majors) to be quite competitive to get into, and the classes are fairly tough. A lot of the people I know who started out as bus-econ end up as something else by their juniors years.</p>
<p>so if we PLAN to major in pre-busecon, should we be taking the prereqs for it right away as a freshman? like on the site it says u needa take like econ 1,2, 11, 41, 101, etc. like if i can skip econ 1/2, do i sign up for econ 11 and 41 for a quarter or is that too much (just do 11, and do 41 next quarter)?</p>
<p>also do we get to choose our professors like during orientation when we sign up for classes or something?</p>
<p>I'm not quite sure what you mean by "choose our professors." When you sign up for a class you more or less "choose" a professor since most classes are taught by professors. You can't sign up for a class without having a professor (unless it's unlisted but, in my experience, that rarely happens.)</p>
<p>yeah i know but can we choose which professors we want to teach us? like each class is taught by a different professor right? if we want a professor that is considered easy, do we choose the class that is taught by him/her or do we just choose the class and we randomly get assigned to a class/professor?</p>
<p>also can anyone tell me what are the typical classes a prebusecon major would take first quarter fresh year?</p>
<p>I took no biz-econ pre-reqs my first quarter freshman year, all GE's. There's really no rush, you'll have plenty of time, especially if you already have credit for econ 1 and 2. BTW I would recommend against taking econ 11 your first quarter, cuz it's bad if you screw up in that class.</p>
<p>Yea, I don't really know what you mean by "choosing a professor." You don't randomly get assigned to a class/professor, but you don't really have a choice either, cuz most of the time there's only one professor teaching a specific class in any given quarter. You'll know what professor is teaching a class when you sign up for it, it shows it. I guess you can "choose" in the sense that if if you see the professor teaching econ 41 (for example) this coming quarter sucks, you can wait until the next quarter and hope that they have a better professor teaching the class.</p>
<p>Sometimes they'll have two different professors teaching the same class in the same quarter, and then you can choose which one you want.</p>
<p>Econ 11 is medium difficulty. Econ 101 is hard. Econ 41 is a joke (assuming it's still the same material as when it was called Stats 11). Don't take Econ 11 your first quarter here... You'll be competing against sophomores who have already adjusted to UCLA and have their own study-cliques, and you'll hate yourself forever if you do badly in that class and flunk yourself out of the BizEcon major from the very beginning of college. :rolleyes:</p>