<p>How much reading exactly do you have to do in this class? And writing? Is it pure agony where you're up all night reading boring books and churning out essays? Research projects? And generally what does the class teach anyways? Is it history or social behavior or literature, etc?</p>
<p>I wanna know this too.
and how is the humcore compared to writing 39B and 39C?
I'm planning to take the humcore series so I can get the humanities req out of the way, but if the workload is too much, I might switch to writing. My other classes are bio 93, bio 2A and chem 1A...which makes it a total of 17 units if I take humanities</p>
<p>Humcore is probably harder than writing but it gets rid of more requirements and may end up being less work in the end. It's pretty much history, social behavior, lit., all that type of stuff. One research project. 3 essays a quarter (save the last one when you only have 2 cause one is the research project). A good amount of reading but you can get away with not reading all if it. You're just gunna have to take it and get a feel for it. There's not much else to say.</p>
<p>It would be difficult to give a fair comparison of the difficulty levels of Humanities Core vs. Writing 39B and 39C, since no one takes both. Humanities was pretty tough, but really improves your reading and writing skills and is totally worth the struggle, regardless of your major.</p>
<p>Are you allowed to take the lecture without taking the writing portion? I want to fulfill Category IV breadth, but I don't want to end up taking an excessive writing class in Spring 2006 (since you only need two) which in this case would be the writing part of humanities 1C</p>
<p>Yeah, I had my lower division english requirements done before I got to UCI, but I'm going to take Humanities H1A-B-C anyways because it satisfies two other requirements (and I'm also interested in bringing my writing up a notch after last year's pitiful attempt at an English class).</p>
<p>"Are you allowed to take the lecture without taking the writing portion? I want to fulfill Category IV breadth, but I don't want to end up taking an excessive writing class in Spring 2006 (since you only need two) which in this case would be the writing part of humanities 1C"</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>Humanities 1C, although it doesn't count for writing, does fulfill category VII-A of breadth.</p>
<p>how much writing do you do for humcore?
and how's the midterm & finals? is it in-class essays?</p>
<p>Everything is writing. Midterm/finals are essay and short anwser, no multiple choice.</p>