Pre-Haas Requirements Question

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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Hi, somebody commented this on my thread and I actually don’t know the answer to it. Does anyone know?

“Basically the Haas website says that “I must satisfy R&C requirement by completing courses comparable to both Berkeley’s English R1A and English R1B”. Does this mean the class has to have the R1A or the R1B tag? for example, German R&C is also one of the courses that satisfies part A of the R&C requirement, but since it’s R5A not R1A, does that mean if I took this course instead it won’t satisfy the Haas prereq’s? I would rather take German R&C over English R1A if possible”

so I was going to take an English class that’s on the R&C list but it’s R4A and not R1A. For Haas, do I have to take a class that’s R1A?

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You need the two English courses.

3

I’m not sure what the difference between 1 and 4 and 5 is with those courses, but you need both the RxA and the RxB classes. You can also take these classes at a CC to satisfy the requirement.

4

Some departments choose different numbers for their R&C courses because they have other courses numbered 1.

http://haas.berkeley.edu/Undergrad/ucb_prereq.html links to http://guide.berkeley.edu/undergraduate/colleges-schools/letters-science/reading-composition-requirement/#RC which lists the various acceptable R&C courses.

(The last sentence means that you cannot use Classics R44 for both R&C and 7-course breadth for the business major, although you can if you are in L&S.)

High enough AP English scores may be also be used: http://haas.berkeley.edu/Undergrad/aplist.html

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It used to mean 1 is taught by a professor and 5 is taught by a graduate student instructor.
However, I never got the impression that one is easier than another.

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Given all of this information that people have added, and the point about being “comparable,” the class is acceptable.