<p>Hey y’all,
I’m planning to go to MIT next yr and I am trying to choose my courses. Can someone give me advice about the HASS classes…</p>
<li><p>Which ones are considered the easiest? The hardest?</p></li>
<li><p>Should we choose classes relating to our intended majors? If I take something “random” like drama, is that bad? </p></li>
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<p>Thanks!!!</p>
<p>Don't worry at all about taking a HASS relevant to anything -- just take a HASS that you'll enjoy. If you're thinking ahead, you might consider taking something you would be interested in turning into a concentration (since you have to take 3-4 HASS classes in a single subject in order to graduate), but if your first semester HASS isn't related to a potential concentration, that's absolutely fine.</p>
<p>There are too many HASS classes offered at MIT to offer a concise list of easy and hard classes. As a first semester freshman, you'll probably want to take a HASS-D CI (communication intensive), and CI classes tend to have more work than non-CI classes in general.</p>
<p>if i take a course thats both HASS-D and CI-H, can that course be used to satisfy both the HASS requirement and the communication requirement?</p>
<p>Oh yes. It can also be used to fulfill a concentration requirement if you choose to concentrate in that department.</p>
<p>All of the HASS requirement stipulations are overlapping, so if you take a class that fulfills more than one requirement, you'll have more HASS elective space in your schedule.</p>
<p>One of your HASS-D's can even go into your concentration =D. </p>
<p>So theoretically, you can take 3 HASS-D classes (two of which are CI-H as well), take 2 more classes in the same topic as one of your HASS-D's, and have 3 purely elective HASS's.</p>
<p>When my daughter was home for Christmas, she spent some time searching for a HASS class that culminated in a final paper, rather than a final examination. Perhaps some of the students on the thread could provide opinions about the desirability of reducing the number of final exams this way.</p>
<p>1) I like.
2) 21H.104</p>
<p>Heh, there are some HASS classes that culminate in a final paper AND an exam. Those make me sad.</p>