<p>Hi - I'm looking to apply to UCLA, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, etc. I only need to take a few more courses at my community college before I hit my 60 credits and then I can fill out transfer applications.</p>
<p>My question is:</p>
<p>Is "Strategies to Academic Success" a course that someone evaluating my transcript would laugh at? It's not a particularly challenging class but one of the reasons I'm looking to take it as an elective is because I'll also be enrolled in a math course (not one of my stronger areas) and I want to devote time to studying for that. </p>
<p>I'm willing to take on a stronger courseload if "Strategies to Academic Success" would be too off-putting. I don't want evaluators to think I'm taking it too easy and only striving for "cake courses." </p>
<p>The other courses I'm looking at taking are:</p>
<p>Survey of Western Literature: Greek-Rennaissance
Human Development and Learning
Personal Finance
History of Philosophy </p>
<p>The major I'm looking at is Rhetoric/Communications.</p>
<p>Any advice out there? I'm in a bit of a time constraint. </p>
<p>smiledarlin, are u from Tenessee? my community college here in LA offers that class, and my community college claims that all classes transfer, however, some may be classified as elective. That class will probably be an elective if it transfers to UCLA. Call UCLA to make sure! </p>
<p>However, if you are not 100% sure, take a class that actually will transfer, like psychology, sociology, or something else! hope that helps!</p>
<p>Most and foremost, finish ALL of your pre-reqs if you plan on applying to UCLA Communications program (most IMPACTED program they have) and try to get a 4.0 as best you can. In addition, you should finish the IGETC.</p>
<p>If "Strategies to Academic Success" is nothing but a filler, don't take it. If you are done with pre-reqs and know what you have to take to finish the IGETC, I would suggest you pick a class that is related to your major (i.e. if it requires English classes, you should take an English class as a filler).</p>
<p>^I agree with pellman. Take something related to your major instead of that "Strategies to Academic Success" (I wonder if they teach you how to use ratemyprofessor in that class lol)</p>
<p>I really appreciate everyone's posts so far. I think I'm going to go with either History of Philosophy or the Survey or Western Literature: Greek-Ren course. The only thing that concerns me is that the latter course has this listed in the Course Catalog:</p>
<p>ENG 261 fulfills no requirements of the English major.</p>
<p>Now - I'm not an English major but still, that's kind of worrisome. Why the disclaimer? Anyone know? </p>
<p>Here is the course description for ENG 261: Survey of Western Literature from the Greeks Through the Renaissance</p>
<p>A study of works by major Western authors from the Bible and Ancient Greek literature through the Renaissance. NOTE: ENG 261 fulfills no requirements of the English major. Components: Lecture//Attributes: Humanities</p>
<p>Also - I'm getting credit through the Community College for taking an AP class in high school. The credit will be for the class "Introduction to Literature." The course description is:</p>
<p>Course introduces students to the study of literature through readings in fiction, drama, and poetry. Content includes terminology and methods for literary analysis and evaluation as well as discussion of social, intellectual, and historical influences on these literary forms. IAI H3 900 </p>
<p>This sounds similar. Even though the schedule is extremely inconvenient I think I'm going to take "History of Philosophy" unless anyone has any more thoughts on the matter. </p>
<p>Still looking for opinions... :) So annoying, I know :)</p>
<p>@ de anza they have a class called Humanities 20 which is essentially "Strategies to Academic Success" but it falls under humanities of IGETC. see if you can find something like that and get the best of both worlds. good luck!</p>
<p>This sounds the same as my English 203 class, which is World Lit from Antiquity to the 1650s. Have no idea why this class isn't counted, I guess its just weird that way. </p>