<p>Fall Semester</p>
<p>COURSE TITLE
21-120 Differential & Integral Calculus
xx-xxx Science Core Course
xx-xxx Science Core Course
76-101 Interpretation and Argument (designated writing)2
99-10x Computing@Carnegie Mellon
xx-xxx Optional 3- or 6-unit Course</p>
<p>This is the suggested course list for incoming freshman. Any suggestions on what to take for the optional units? More importantly, any comments on what not to take?</p>
<p>I hate to say it, but as a freshman it’s unlikely that you’ll be able to get into the ‘popular’ elective courses, as those are often in high demand. As for MCS electives, I’ll let someone from the college answer, as I’m not too sure about MCS coursework.</p>
<p>Mackey is teaching 21-120 and a 3-unit seminar on Fermat’s last theorem. He’s an amazing professor, and probably the best you could hope for as a freshman. I suggest you sign up for both of his courses.</p>
<p>Unpopular professor- Dennis Quaid</p>
<p>Sadly//…Mackey who is the foundation of 15127 concepts …is on sabbatical next fall…boo hoo.</p>
<p>You can see the student course evaluations for any faculty member.
Click here, search by department and once you have the class of interest, click on its link leading to a pop-up…on that pop-up if you’re signed in with your CMU ID you can see the CMU teaching evals for all previous classes taught.</p>
<p><a href=“https://enr-apps.as.cmu.edu/open/SOC/SOCServlet[/url]”>https://enr-apps.as.cmu.edu/open/SOC/SOCServlet</a></p>
<p>Also, “rate my prof”. com is available.</p>
<p>Regarding Freshman English- pick by topic not prof…as over half the instructors are grad students anyways… for what’s it is worth- they all use one of two assigned textbooks and the assignment load is standard…</p>
<p>You are not taking too many electives for quite a while…whomever teaching the required class- that’s who you get!</p>
<p>are you sure he is on sabbatical? i know he’s not teaching concepts, but he currently is listed as the teacher for the courses i mentioned…</p>
<p>S and friends misinformed…they asked the CS advisor about this recently-- he said he was gone…looks like he’s still there and being directed elsewhere-- I’m guessing by choice - given his outstanding teaching record</p>
<p>They also heard the woman teaching concepts sucks…what’s your take?</p>
<p>all the Interp professors are grad students. my recommendations are the Fans & Fan Culture course or Evil In America, both of which are taught by awesome professors and are pretty hilarious/easily graded.</p>
<p>I thought all of the Interp & Argument sections’ curricula were selected by the grad student teaching them? I know the assignments are standardized, but I didn’t read any of the same books as my friends, and none of them read the same books as each other.</p>
<p>Maybe they’ve just changed things since I took it.</p>
<p>Yeah, they are all different. Some will do the ‘argument map’ assignments and others will just do argument techniques, etc, etc. And the reading and subject is completely different for each Interp section. There IS a standard text book called “I say, You say” which basically amounts to everything that you should have learned about writing in the third grade (create a thesis, develop one central idea, support your argument with facts or quotes, etc). My professor never used the textbook though, and I know some others don’t either. </p>
<p>There are three standard essays that you write - an argument paper, synthesis paper and contribution paper. aside from that the assignments can vary widely.</p>
<p>Also since the advent of blackboard, they just post readings for you online, usually 6-10 pages per reading. The readings change for every section.</p>