<p>Any comments/suggestions you leave are greatly appreciated. I'm new to all this, so any tips are great.</p>
<p>For GWU, we had to register starting a week or two ago. Anyways, here's what I have thus far...</p>
<p>I'm a first semester GWU student for an International Affairs major...</p>
<p>M/F - Introduction to Comparative Politics (9:35 am - 10:50 am)
M/F - Calculus II (11:10 am - 12:25 pm) + Th Recitation (3:55 pm - 4:45 pm)
M/W - European Civilization in World Context 1715 - Present (2:20 pm - 3:35 pm)
M/T/W/Th - Basic Spanish II (5:10 pm - 6:00 pm)</p>
<p>That's 13 credits, and I need a minimum of 15 credits for the sake of keeping my financial aid for this semester from GWU, I learned AFTER I registered on my day (Blargh). Anyways, the extra elective classes I have to consider signing up for in July are:</p>
<p>Media in a Free Society
General Psychology
Social Psych
Abnormal Psych
Developmental Psych
Origin of the Cosmos + Lab</p>
<p>I want to take Calculus II because I've already taken Calculus BC my junior year at high school, so I already know the content. But I want to get a better grasp at it. I dunno, I enjoy math. >_>;</p>
<p>If it were me (and I can't tell you what you should do, so I'm just trying to give you an idea of how I would choose among those options), I wouldn't take General Psychology. It's likely to be broad rather than deep, and I prefer classes that are the other way around. I'd choose Social over Abnormal and Developmental, but that's an issue of taste.</p>
<p>Both Origin of the Cosmos and Media in a Free Society sound very interesting to me. (Both of them also sound more interesting to me than any of the psychology classes, but plenty of people would disagree with me.) I would be more likely to use what I learned in the media course, and given your major you might be too -- but I believe in spending some time studying things just because they're interesting. So I would probably spend a little time seeing what information I could find about the instructors, textbooks they may have used in the past (though I would check with the school bookstore shortly before registration to see whether there was information on a definite choice available), and so on.</p>
<p>Haha yes, well...I may have used RateMyProfessors in order to get a grasp on the teaching styles of these professors as well as whether or not they showed enthusiasm for their area of teaching. That led me to my elective candidates, as well as them fitting <em>perfectly</em> into my schedule.</p>