<p>College of Letters & Sciences.
Intend to major in Computer Science or ORMS.</p>
<p>Math 1A
Computer Science 61A
Rhetoric R1A (R&C requirement)
French 1 (Foreign language requirement)</p>
<p>Sounds reasonable, you have a long way to meet all of your math prereqs for computer science. If you haven’t studied French before, I think you may be surprised at how hard college-level French is going to be, be prepared to study hard.</p>
<p>That seems to be an above average course load for 1st semester. CS is a pretty heavy class and rhetoric should also take a good chunk of time.</p>
<p>Certainly you could switch the French to something easier and worry about satisfying that requirement later.</p>
<p>this is reasonable. language classes at the college level are much more intense than they are at the high school level. if you have a strong background in french, then this is a good idea, however, if you are new to the language then it will take up a lot of your time. math1a and rhetoric1a will be reasonable workloads, and 61a will be a good technical intro for you. this is a heavier load than most, but definitely doable with diligent work habits.</p>
<p>pick a better R&Ca. Rhetoric is way too much work.
Leave French in. Start it ASAP. Do not delay it.</p>
<p>im also planning on taking French next year. how do we find out what level we should be in. I’ve taken four years of high school french but im not sure where that would put me at the college level.</p>
<p>French Placement Guidelines:</p>
<p>[Placement</a> Guidelines](<a href=“http://french.berkeley.edu/undergrad/placement.php]Placement”>http://french.berkeley.edu/undergrad/placement.php)</p>
<p>One or two years of HS = nothing
Three years of HS = one semester
Four years of HS = two semesters
Five years of HS = three semesters</p>
<p>Mowgli, you belong in French 3. Phase I it. The class is getting full. Only 16 seats left.</p>
<p>I have a fairly solid base in French. Have done the first two courses at Alliance Fran</p>
<p>I would recommend R&C courses not in the College Writing/English/Comp Lit Departments since these generally are harder. The R&C courses in the language departments such as French, German, Scandinavian or Slavic are generally easier. If you take a language department’s R&C course you will read say French literature in translation or German literature in translation and etc.</p>
<p>…don’t really like the whole idea of studying translated texts. :S</p>
<p>if you take asian-american or south east asian R&C classes, they are not translated texts, but rather novels written by or about asian/southeast asian descent.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say above average for that load. If you’re starting with Math 1A (i.e. you didn’t do Calc in high school), and especially if you have no programming experience, then you have your work cut out for you if you want to apply for CS after your sophomore year (which is when you should do it). You have 5 Math classes to take, 3 CS classes, and 2 EE classes, as well as a physics class. If you average this, you should be ideally be taking 2-3 requirement courses a semester. I know it’s tough, but you have to plan ahead since the administration frowns very heavily on spending extra semesters. All in all, what you’ve posted is a good schedule for this semester.</p>
<p>^As an International, I’ve done Math 1A etc in school, but not taken any APs. :(</p>
<p>^^cppdev’s stuff above doesn’t apply to CS, it applies to EECS.</p>
<p>Phew. Got me really worried there.</p>
<p>Actually, it applies to both, but I was referring to CS. Notice that I said “apply for the major”, which you would only do for Letters and Sciences CS, since you join Cal in EECS if you are in EECS from day 1. Take a look on the Berkeley CS Website ([Undergraduate</a> L&S CS Students | EECS at UC Berkeley](<a href=“http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/csugrad/]Undergraduate”>http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/csugrad/)) and you’ll see the lower-division requirements for CS, which you should take before applying for the major. They are:</p>
<p>Math1A
Math1B
Math53
Math54
Math55 or CS70
CS61A
CS61B
CS61C
EE40/42</p>
<p>The good news is that CS is uncapped now, so you’ll get as long as you have passing grades in all the classes.</p>
<p>Math 53 is NOT required for CS majors. Physics, of course, is also not required.
[Undergraduate</a> L&S CS Students | EECS at UC Berkeley](<a href=“http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/csugrad/]Undergraduate”>http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/csugrad/)</p>
<p>MATH 1A - 4units
FRENCH 1 - 4units
R&C requirement - 4units
COMPSCI 61A - 4units </p>
<p>Good enough?</p>