<p>There aren’t many class sections open for Chem 101, a first semester course as part of the new engineering curriculum.</p>
<p>Right now, there’s only an 8A and an 11A, and two other sections which conflict with the CB class. Since the intro to mech eng class is offered at 11A only, it seems, looks like we’ll have to do chem at 8A. Not fun!</p>
<p>Is there a possibility more sections of chemistry will open?</p>
<p>Most likely not, these sections are huge and can only fit in a few classrooms on campus, so the times they can be offered are limited.</p>
<p>Gah!!! : (</p>
<p>Throughout the summer, students will make changes to their schedules, so you may see some additional openings at a later time. Last fall, there were just four sections of Chem 101, and most had 200+ students. </p>
<p>An 8 a.m. class is not the worst thing – after all, most students had to be in class or were on their way to class at 8 a.m. in high school. There are even classes that start earlier than 8 a.m. As my son said, you learn to value an afternoon nap.</p>
<p>Because kids who had attended earlier Bama Bounds were snapping up spots opened for current Bama Bound kids, UA has started a new policy that freshmen registration will close after each BB, and won’t reopen again until after July 29.</p>
<p>I guess they had problems with past BB kids logging on at 10am on the second day of later BB’s and filling up spots opened for the current BB kids.</p>
<p>However, someone in honors didn’t think the school would be able to properly close the freshmen, so who knows.</p>
<p>There aren’t many class sections open for Chem 101, a first semester course as part of the new engineering curriculum.</p>
<p>I can’t get on mybama now…it seems to be down. But, I thought that there were more than 4 sections of Chem 101. </p>
<p>There are also honors versions. I think there are 8 honors sections, so it seems odd that only 4 sections would be non-honors.</p>
<p>For those who want to avoid Dixon (because some think he’s too hard), there’s no way Dixon is teaching all 8 honors Chem classes. I think at most any prof would teach is 2 or 3 sections. So, I think there will be at least 3 diff profs teaching honors Chem.</p>
<p>maybe someone who has already been to bama bound can check it out and see if they can change their schedule.</p>
<p>Oh, no problem with 8 am class, but I was wondering why there would be so few sections, considering that premed and engineering students would have to take this class. It would seem that that would be a pretty large number of students. </p>
<p>If you can’t get in this class, would that prohibit you from taking subsequent engineering courses, or even physics? I don’t know if it’s listed as a prereq, but was wondering if student would have trouble with these classes without it. Son only took one year of chemistry as a junior in high school.</p>
<p>There are at least 12 sections of Chem…some are regular and some are honors. That’s not a few. That’s plenty for the pre-med and eng’g students. You can’t only count the non-honors version.</p>
<p>Mybama is down right now, so I can’t check. Also, those who would want to try to change their schedule can’t do it because mybama is down.</p>
<p>If your son is planning on taking Calculus I, the discussion/test-taking sections are all T 6:30-7:50, and the CH 101 section at 8 AM has the same discussion/test-taking section time. I’m not certain if this could be overridden. He might not be able to take CH 101 this semester due to schedule conflicts. My friend who is an ME major told me that Chemistry isn’t a prerequisite for courses well into sophomore and junior years though, so it would only require a few courses to be switched around in the standard ME 4 year plan.</p>
<p>Or alternatively, he could postpone ME 121 to a later semester; some of my friends have delayed their departmental courses (like CHE 125 or the old DR 100) to future semesters because of CBH.</p>
<p>Montegut, according to the ME flow chart (you may want to email the dept secretary for the lastest version), CH 101 is only a prereq for MTE 271 (which is the materials course). MTE 271 itself is only a prereq for ME 383. Basically, it is not imperative for your son to take CH 101 this semester.</p>
<p><a href=“http://me.eng.ua.edu/undergraduate_programs/FlowChart.pdf[/url]”>http://me.eng.ua.edu/undergraduate_programs/FlowChart.pdf</a></p>
<p>We too had heard that registration would close after Bama Bound, but just this morning DS got into a class that was full yesterday. Will go look again and see if things are still open. He also (of course) dropped out of the class he had used as his second choice so opened that up for someone. My advice is to stalk that course list and see if your option comes up.</p>
<p>4pm CST, Yes - still open for add/drop classes. Maybe they’ll close things after today? Will keep checking.</p>
<p>Yay AL34! I know that was throwing a wrench into his plans, so I’m glad it worked out!</p>
<p>Now that mybama is back up, I can see that there are only 2 honor chem classes (I couldn’t check this morning when it was down and wrongly remembered more.). </p>
<p>does anyone know what the max capacity of Shelby 1004 and Shelby 1092, Shelby 1093 are? Last year, Shelby 1004 had 212 students in it so that might be its max. And, Shelby 1093 had 157 students in it. And, Shelby 1092 had 60.</p>
<p>Last year, the honors version had 60 kids max in Shelby 1092.</p>
<p>It looks like there will be about 30-40 honors spots opening next week (depending how many they hold back for later/last BB session).</p>
<p>Regular Intro to Chem is not full. More spaces will open for each section. Looking at the opening for labs, there will be at least 200 more spaces opened up amongst those 3 sections. So, yes, the lectures in non-honors will be big, but the labs will be small ( no more than 24 per lab class)</p>
<p>Maybe I’m mixing things up, but why can’t Montegut’s son take</p>
<p>Gen Chem at 11am
and then CBH at 12 noon?</p>
<p>Unless I’m not seeing something, this way he doesn’t have to take the 8am class.</p>
<p>Thanks RobD -
Wasn’t precisely the course he wanted, but one of the three required so has to be done at some time anyways. Much better than “wasting” the 3 credits on something that may have been fun but wouldn’t have helped him get to where he’s trying to go.
Still going to keep checking for that one elusive course :)</p>
<p>What is the elusive course?</p>
<p>AL34: My son told me that the registrar does close the classes later in the day, so that there will be spots for the next Bama Bound session. That said, upperclassmen know that they can get online during Bama Bound and drop/add classes, too. So you will see numbers in classes change quite regularly. My son added an extra honors seminar the other day.</p>
<p>Also, RobD and AL34, when you have a chance, please PM me? It’s regarding credits.</p>
<p>Can’t take chem at 11 because that’s when intro to mech eng is offered. Three sections offered, same time, same day, but at three different five week intervals.</p>
<p>Ahh…</p>
<p>So, it’s either Chem at 8, honors chem, chem in spring, or chem at a comm college.</p>