<p>I feel really stupid asking this, but what are the R&C courses?</p>
<p>They are reading and composition, designed to have people read texts (mostly written, although sometimes movies, art, or historic documents) and write about them. They are part of the requirements for people in the college of letters and sciences.</p>
<p>We in the college of engineering also have to complete R&C requirements. There are two classifications: R1A and R1B. I believe that a 5 on the AP English Literature exam will place you out of both R1A and R1B IF you are in the college of letters and science. In the college of engineering, you can at most place out of R1A and will have to take R1B no matter what you've scored (they like to force engineers to take more humanities courses, it seems).</p>
<p>Well, you do have to take only 6 total humanities or social science classes if you're in the CoE, right? Can't the R1b course count as one of those six, or both R1a and R1b if you take both?</p>
<p>You're right, DRab, we have to take 6 total. I guess that statement should've been worded "they like to force engineers to take more <em>writing</em> courses, it seems." It bugged that what was "good enough" to place out of R1B in L&S wasn't good enough for COE.</p>
<p>Well, higher standards might make you do better in life- perhaps they're just doing there best to make sure you get a more broad education, as almost all classes for the average engineer would be math and science, and they don't require that much. <em>shrug</em> I dont' know how I feel about it.</p>