<p>first time poster! haha i've heard rave reviews on irvine's humanities core course(s?) for incoming freshman and i'm curious, mainly on admissions, the requirements to get in--say if i don't get a four/five on the AP lit test (next thursday EEEP), could i still take it/them? haha and more details possibly...i'm not very informed on the actual classes--only that they sound fantastic!</p>
<p>I don't really understand how not getting a four or five can stop you from taking humanities core classes? I thought anyone can take the humanities courses as long as they sign up... rite? Do you mean the Analytical Writing exam? Yea, if you don't complete the Subject A requirements (writing) you wouldn't be able to take freshman-level English, but that has nothing to do with the humanities...</p>
<p>AP tests for English lit. and lang. won't get you out of humcore and I don't think it'll actually do anything besides give you generic credit. If you pass it you will get out of subject A so that you can take humcore though if you didn't pass out of subject A some other way. I passed both lang and lit and out of that I got 8 UC credits, nothing else (they only even give credit for one of the two tests). I could give you more specifics on the actual class if you want as I am currently taking humcore (and probably should be working on my essay right now). What specifically do you want to know and are you an incoming freshman next year?</p>
<p>okay your replies make sense, i think at destination irvine (?) someone mentioned the course was selective and required a four or higher on AP lit/lang tests. <em>whew</em> breath of relief then! but now that's out of the way, yes i'd like more info about the classes themselves oh and so to clarify, nothing can stop you from taking them? having another major i.e?</p>
<p>People from a lot of different majors take humcore to get rid of breadth requirements it's just that if you are a humanities major you HAVE to take humcore. To get into humcore you just need to pass subject A which can be done by getting a 680 on satII writing, or a 3,4, or 5 on either AP lit of lang, or taking the subject A test to pass out. There might be another way to pass out too, I can't remember. I'd definitely recommend humcore for everyone cause it gets rid of a lot of breadth requirements and although it is 8 units per quarter for your whole first year, it really isn't 8 units of work. Maybe 6 or something but still.</p>
<p>For classes you have 3 different lecturers per quarter and then discussion. Your discussion leader makes up the midterm/final and advises on writing essays and goes over the lecture. You get two 4 unit grades each quarter. One is based on your essays and the other is based on midterm/final. Also, participation is factored in but only about 10 percent for each grade.</p>
<p>The only thing that could stop you from taking Humanities is if they run out of space in the course. I think they have around 1200 spots in the class (3 lectures of 400 each). YY described it pretty well. I'd like to add that each quarter has a different theme, and all of the books read during that quarter center around the theme. </p>
<p>You can look at the humanities core website here:
<a href="http://eee.uci.edu/programs/humcore/%5B/url%5D">http://eee.uci.edu/programs/humcore/</a></p>
<p>They use the same theme for three years, and I believe that next year will be year 2 in the cycle, so the website I referred you to should be almost exactly the same next year. So you can actually see what books you'll be reading and what kinds of things you'll be learning.</p>
<p>It's one of those classes that I really hated when I was in it, but when I graduated I looked back and realized that it was a VERY valuable class and really improved my writing and understanding of text, which is important no matter what major you are.</p>
<p>thanks for all the help, sounds exciting! and rather painful...</p>
<p>i think i failed subject A exam :( does that mean i can't take HUmanities A like ppl who passed the test? it says i have to take Humanities A (S/A) but wat is that? is that one more course to take? or is it just the same thing?</p>
<p>can any1 answer my question regarding failing Subject A requirement?</p>