<p>I'm a pre-law and in the midst of deciding my schedule for fall. One of courses I'm considering is Philosophy 48 (Logic), which was one of the 'recommended' courses on the Trinity pre-law advice site, and I'm wondering whether it's mostly upperclassmen (since right now it's already 22/35 full and freshmen haven't begun registering yet) and will a frosh be able to survive it? Thanks!</p>
<p>I've looked at other pre-law recommended courses such as Econ but couldn't fit it into my current schedule... what other classes should I look at? Sociology maybe?</p>
<p>i had a friend (a freshman) take Logic and he really like it. it's a below-100 level class for a reason - definitely appropriate.</p>
<p>pubpol classes might be worth a try.</p>
<p>you could always try Latin, which from I've heard is supposed to help with your LSATs. i don't know if this is true, but i remember hearing that classics majors typically score very high on LSATs.</p>
<p>I can't find a synopsis for this course (its not in the online course synopsis handbook, for some reason...). Could someone shed a bit of light on what it's about and what the coursework is like?</p>
<p>If you go to <a href="http://www.siss.duke.edu%5B/url%5D">www.siss.duke.edu</a>, there's a list of a bunch of past semesters. You can just go to a past semester and click on the same course, and there should be a synopsis listed there. Most courses don't really change all that much from year to year, so whatever it says there is probably applicable.</p>
<p>Having just taken the LSAT this afternoon, I can tell you that Phil 48 would be pretty useful, but not by any means crucial.</p>
<p>I took it in the fall of my sophomore year. I found it reasonably easy, but of course few courses at Duke can be completely blown off. My freshmen friends in the course both seemed to handle it fine.</p>
<p>The current - and tentative - plan is for a 2-3-2 track; two years med school, three in law school, then two more in med school before heading off to residency and such.</p>
<p>Of course, this is all contingent on an LSAT score good enough to get me in somewhere...</p>
<p>Thanks! By the way, if I'm pre-law (tentative psychology or econ major with philosophy minor), would it be necessary to take any lab sciences (chem, bio, etc) to fulfill the Natural Sciences requirement?</p>
<p>No, you don't have to take any lab courses. The science departments have sub-100 level courses that are specifically intended for non-majors (e.g. Bio 48, Chem 83), and will say as much in the description.</p>
<p>If you're a psych major, Psych 91 counts towards NS. Another semi-easy way to fulfill it is BAA 93 -- or, like banana said, Bio 48 and Chem 83 are REALLY popular for just that purpose (non-science people who need to fulfill the NS req). They're known to be pretty much the easiest classes at Duke.</p>
<p>I'm about to PM you my med school destination. And no, I'm not doing a joint degree - I'm doing the MD and the JD separately. And no, it's not that common a degree combination - one of the rarer ones, in fact, but I think it'll be really worthwhile.</p>
<p>I took Logic (Phil 48) and it was pretty bad. Who is teaching it? I had it with Linquist - he was a nice guy but the class only spends like 2 weeks focusing on formal logic and then you move into all these strange translations and whatnot. I took it for the same reason - to help on the lsats and having studied for the lsats now for the past 5 months ( I was supposed to take it yesterday but had to postpone it) I can promise you that you'll pick up all the logic you would have learned in that class in like 2 hours of an lsat prep class.</p>