<p>BioE prefrosh also thinking of doubling IEOR</p>
<p>Courses:
- Math 53 (4 units w/ hutchings)
- E10 (3 units w/ shen)
- BioE 24 (1 unit seminar w/ mofrad)
- Polecis 100 - classical theories of political economy (4 units w/ karras)
- E7 (4 units w/ horowitz or frenklach)
16 units total. 4 classes and 1 seminar.</p>
<p>I could also move down the Friday E7 discussion down an hour, but other than that this is pretty much the only schedule for these classes. I could also drop one of them and try to get a different class... (phys 7a, bio 100, or energy resources 100 are some I was thinking of)</p>
<p>Questions...
1. Is this too much for 1st semester of college?
2. Are the back-to-back classes too much (as in I'd always be late to classes)?
3. Is 1 hr enough for lunch?
4. Any other comments or suggestions whatsoever? I've been kind of research this solo right now and I feel like I'm in over my head...</p>
<p>Are you sure you are ready for a course like Polecis 100? Most freshman wouldn't do well in a class like that, I'd imagine. Wouldn't it be better to take E7 after Math 54? I really don't know much about that. I would imagine most BioE majors are taking chemistry, biology, or physics their first semester as well, if not 2 of the 3.</p>
<p>is polecis 100 a difficult/intensive class? i just looked through the approved humanities courses for something that looked interesting and chose that. </p>
<p>as for e7, in the CoE handbook it lists it as 2nd semester frosh year (but i've tested out of a lot of the 1st semester classes so just went ahead).</p>
<p>I wanted to take phys 7a, but it has major conflicts with some other classes (generates 0 schedules w/ math 53, e10, and bioe24), maybe because it's normally a 2nd semester class? (or at least listed as 2nd semester in CoE hadbook)</p>
<p>polecis 100 is an upper-division course. Any course 100 or above is upper division, mainly designed for students who have taken lower division courses in the subject already. I think the reading and paper requirements will be difficult for an incoming freshman. You should be taking poli sci 2 or something, not polecis 100.</p>
<p>ahhhhh okay, thanks for the info. I was just picking the "beginning" of what looked to me like a series. so if I took polisci 2, and then polecis 100 later, it wouldn't satisfy my series requirements? if i wanted to double major would doing something like that be "inefficient"?</p>
<p>I don't know how the series requirement works, maybe someone else can explain that. Typically you take a lower division course and then meet the prerequisites for upper division courses. So you take Linguistics 5 and then can take Linguistics 100; You take Econ 1 and then later can take Econ 100A or 100B. You take Phil 12A introduction to logic and then can take 142 or whatever philosophical logic. That kind of thing.</p>
<p>which is math 53, engin 10, bioe24 seminar, engin 7, poli sci 2, and e98 for 17 units</p>
<p>my two questions are:</p>
<ul>
<li>is this too hard?</li>
<li>right now there aren't enough discussions open for math 53, and only 1 slot in the e7 lab I want. will this royally screw everything up, or will more slots be opened? (i could also take a 8-930 math disc, but i don't think I can take any other labs)</li>
</ul>
<p>yeah, 17 units seems good... but are these classes too hard in this combination? i know math 53 will be difficult (although I have taken multivar calc at a CC), and i hear e7 is hard but e10 is easy? and polisci 2 = ??</p>
<p>math53 - shouldnt be too hard especially since youve taken it at a CC already
polisci2 - i dont know anything about
e10 - easy class, guaranteed A
e7 - this class will take up most of ur time for sure</p>
