<p>Hey, Im majoring in Literature and I'm an exchange student and I was wondering what professors/classes do u recomend me to take?</p>
<p>Exchange student or international student? Exchange implies you’re just visiting the campus for a quarter or so which completely changes how one would recommend classes to you ;)</p>
<p>Get LIT 1 out of the way immediately as well as the language pre-req. I would not recommend LIT 1 your first quarter, though, if you’re coming in as a frosh. You’ll have your hands tied with your core class you’re required to take. When you can take these classes will depend on how you scored on your writing exam, though.</p>
<p>Making an appointment with the literature department would be your best bet to get yourself on the right track.</p>
<p>When you do eventually take LIT 101, if you can take it with Greene then you’ll have a blast. But she is very hard and demanding (it is an upper division class, though). However, she is incredibly interesting to listen to.</p>
<p>Hi! thanks for your reply, and Im an exchange student, will be at SC just for the Fall semester. And I was actually thinking of taking upper divison classes since back home I’m in my last semester so I’ve taken all the introductory courses I had to lol. Also I wanted to ask if taking 5 classes for just one quarter is too much of a load or if its okay. Thanks a lot!</p>
<p>Ah, yeah, that does make a difference what I recommend then 
Thanks for clearing that up!</p>
<p>You will definitely need to speak with not only the Literature department at UCSC, but also your own. You’ll need to confirm which classes you’re eligible for and which will transfer and count for graduation at your main campus. The department at UCSC will most likely have to give you permission codes to register for classes as not only will the system not show you as having met the pre-reqs for the upper division classes, but they most are full by now for the fall. Just a quick glance at my two upper division Lit classes for the fall shows they are full as of this posting.</p>
<p>Main literature site:
[UC</a> Santa Cruz - Literature](<a href=“http://literature.ucsc.edu%5DUC”>http://literature.ucsc.edu)</p>
<p>This is the tentative list of classes for the next year at UCSC:
<a href=“http://literature.ucsc.edu/undergraduate/ug_curric_10-11.pdf[/url]”>http://literature.ucsc.edu/undergraduate/ug_curric_10-11.pdf</a></p>
<p>It’s a good jumping off point to look through the schedule of classes to see what’s being offered:
<a href=“https://pisa.ucsc.edu/class_search/[/url]”>https://pisa.ucsc.edu/class_search/</a></p>
<p>Anything listed 100 and up is an upper division course. Make sure to look through more than just the “Literature” category as the lit classes are spread out. Note that even if they look full, some spots might be being held for new students who will be registering much later than the continuing students were able to. It is best to speak as soon as possible with UCSC’s Lit department.</p>
<p>As for five classes, that’s 25 quarter units. If you’re planning all upper division work for that and all Lit classes… many would consider that academic suicide. A conversion to semester units says it’s the same as taking 16.675 units, but remember that’s only in 10 weeks, not 16-18 weeks. It’s been done, but I highly recommend against it. And besides that, the maximum units allowed is 19 units your first quarter anyways. If you maintain above a 3.0, however, you can register for up to 22 units without permission from a counselor. I do not know how this would work in a visiting student capacity. You might be able to convince them to allow 20 units (four classes), but I doubt they would approve five classes.</p>
<p>Oh yep, I already checked with my home university about the classes I have to take in order to finish my academic program here, and most of the classes I have to complete are electives (so I can pretty much take any classes I want here. The only obligatory class I have to take is Shakespeare and it seems that the won’t be giving that course this semester (which sucks) but I dunno if they will teach any Shakespeare in the British Literature to 1740 course, you know anything about it?</p>
<p>And regarding the amount of classes, I think I’ll stick to the 4 classes: 3 upper divission and 1 lower divission. Though it seems all the classes I want to take are 5 credit classes, I dunno how you manage to take 19 credits per quarter, is there any courses that have less credits in the literature department?</p>
<p>It’s being taught over the summer during second session for sure (I’m enrolled in it), but I believe the next time it will be taught is winter quarter? I could be wrong, I’m going from memory of the proposed schedule. I just know it is not offered this fall quarter.</p>
<p>Have you checked just for the classes you need to complete your degree at your campus or the ones that will transfer to your school from UCSC that are being offered? If not the latter, you really need to do this as soon as possible and then speak to the Lit department at UCSC about which classes you can get into.</p>
<p>And there are labs and such that are less than 5-units. For my second major, I have to take a 2-unit course three times (in different quarters, of course). They really don’t want you taking more than three 5-unit classes a quarter so they purposely make it difficult to do so. That one extra unit over the max can get them to be a pain to approve since you’re not a continuing student with above a 3.0. Also note that you cannot register in more than 19 units until the first day of the quarter.</p>