<p>Fall will be my first semester at Cal. After I've signed up for all the required courses I will still need to fill 2 units to be a full time student. Any recommendations?</p>
<p>Look at the DeCals - the Fall ones are not yet listed but peruse what was available for Spring to get a good idea of the range and types. <a href=“http://decal.org%5B/url%5D”>http://decal.org</a></p>
<p>Harry Potter DeCal.</p>
<p>Great! Do you happen to know when the Fall Decals get posted?</p>
<p>I think the Harry Potter DeCal was posted sometime in July. You have to “apply” for a spot in the class.</p>
<p>hi do these decal courses count as upper division units? how do i check if they are? i’m reading the course descriptions for some of them but it doesn’t state</p>
<p>I think if you’re a junior or senior, the DeCal you take will count as UD. If you’re a freshman or sophomore, it’s lower division. </p>
<p>@wopstew23: doesn’t it say July 13th on the site?</p>
<p>MUSIC 20A!! With or without experience in music, this is such a good course. It even fills your arts and literature requirement too if you are in L&S.</p>
<p>^ Too bad it fills up extremely quickly. I tried Phase I-ing it and it was already full by then with people on the waitlist so I picked EPS C82 instead.</p>
<p>It does say that classes will be posted July 13. Thanks.</p>
<p>I’d recommend Public Health 116</p>
<p>The instructor will add you in Music 20A as long as you keep attending the class.</p>
<p>ph 116 is really a great two unit class to take</p>
<p>ph 116 currently has all 400 seats filled and a waitlist of 193</p>
<p>Well, the OP is a freshman so there will be plenty of oppurtunities to explore classes like PH116 in the future. I would suggest a CIV ENG seminar; I took one that required you to go on 3 field trips around the bay-San Francisco, Alameda, and an estuary. We only met 4 times all semester and they served us pizza while listening to our plans for the upcoming trip. Open only to freshman.</p>
<p>it doesnt matter-people who are more than halfway down the waitlist often get into the class anyway.</p>
<p>If it is very interesting, why do 100 or more drop the class?</p>
<p>It’s usually a low percentage, so 100 or more people wouldn’t drop the same class unless it was maybe a 1000 person class, which doesn’t exist (I surely hope not). People usually just estimate this percentage as 10% because of what tends to happen: scheduling conflicts, hard courseload, unnecessary course, boring, more time for other classes, etc.</p>
<p>Yes, that was my question about this particular class, since the waitlist is more than 48% the size of the class. Half of that list would still be way over the usual rule of thumb, yet it seems like a class that would tend to have fewer than usual drop. Sounded like one of the posters had experience with the class clearing far more than usual.</p>