Nitty Gritty LSA Degree Requirements

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<p>Hi there.</p>

<p>I've been admitted into the University of Michigan LSA College (Honors) as a Sophomore (transferring for Fall '06 and onward). Last weekend I spent a couple of hours just sitting down trying to put together a comprehensive idea of what my schedule for next semester might look like.</p>

<p>I came across this web page: <a href="http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsa/detail/0,2034,12049%255Farticle%255F16835,00.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsa/detail/0,2034,12049%255Farticle%255F16835,00.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>So after reading this... I have a few questions.</p>

<p>Does the "First Year Writing Course" apply to Great Books or just College Writing? What exactly does "year" mean? Do these two classes take up both Fall and Winter semesters? I'd certainly hope not.</p>

<p>This is also my question about the Language requirement. When it says "fourth-term" proficiency, what does that mean? Does, for example, German-101 cover two full semesters? The LSA course guide says that German-2XX covers the language requirement, which to me would normally suggest that it only requires TWO term proficiency, unless these two courses are two-term based... which is very odd.</p>

<p>Also, when I transfer classes from my current school to UMich, how do credits work? Like, for instance, let's say Intro to Bio. Anthr. is worth 3 credits at my current school, but 4 at UMich. Which one supercedes the other?</p>

<p>I'll probably go over all of this with my advisor over the summer, but I'd like to get on top of this before I meet her. Thanks for any advice/help.</p>

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<p>Great books covers your first-year writing requirement. It's technically only a one-semester requirement, but in honors, two semester of great books is required, but don't worry, it gets your humanities classes covered. Fourth-term proficiency means four semesters worth of a language. German 101 is only a one-semester course, so it would only count for one of the 4. And yes, German 2XX covers the language requirement, but there are two such 2XX classes, and both must be passed, and if you add them to the two 1XX classes, you have 4 combined terms. Not sure about the anthrobio stuff. I'd imagine you only get 3 credits for it.</p>

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<p>Ah yeah, you're right about German. I must've skimmed too quickly through the German courses, I missed 102 and 103. Thanks, I understand how that works now.</p>