Incoming Freshman, planning to major somewhere in the College of Biological Sciences. Just wondering about the GE classes I should take this fall quarter/freshman year?
What science classes do you plan to take and how many units do you want to take for the Fall quarter?
Anthropology 2 (ANT2) – Cultural Anthropology (4 units)
Learn about anthropological methods, kinships, gender, and politics in different societies all over the world. This class is a triple dip, because it fulfills Social-Science, Diversity, and Writing GEs. Midterms are all multiple-choice and there is one term paper. The downside to this is that you will have a discussion class.
Asian American Studies 1 (ASA1) – Historical Experiences of Asian Americans (4 units)
Triple-Dip Class! It fulfills Social-Science, Diversity, and Writing GEs. Grading are based on the multiple-choice midterm and final, along with one term paper. You will have a discussion class too. ASA1 teaches you about the lives of Asian Americans in the United states from the time period of the 1840s to the present.
Comparative Literature 25 (COM 25) – Ethnic Minority Writers in World Literature
Read short stories from different ethnic writers all over the world and learn about the challenges they face for being an ethnic minority. This is a lecture and in-class discussion type of class. It fulfills the GEs for Arts and Humanities, Diversity, and Writing.
Environmental Toxicology 10 (ETX10) – Introduction to Environmental Toxicology (3 units)
The class is structured with multiple choice midterms and a final. You’ll learn about hazardous plants, the effects they have on humans, and how they affect the environment. This fulfills the Science and Engineering GE.
Food Science and Technology 10 (FST 10) – Food Science, Folklore and Health (3 units)
This class is taught by two Professors and it fulfills the Science Engineering or Social Science GE. What’s even better is you don’t even need to buy the book in order to pass the class! The midterms are all multiple-choice and there’s no written final. FST10 is about food preservatives, food safety, organic food, and nutritional enhancement.
Human Development 12 (HDE12) – Human Sexuality (3 units)
This class fulfills the Diversity GE. HDE12 is about sexual responses, and everything else that relates to human sexuality like sexual orientations, contraceptives, and disease. Beware that the Professor may show a film of a woman giving birth!
Nutrition 10 (NUT 10) – Discoveries and Concepts in Nutrition (3 units)
This class fulfills your Science and Engineering GE .
If you are into History, some of the Classics classes such as CLA003 Rome and Mediterranean will fulfill the Arts and Humanities and Writing GE’s.
Just an FYI that Dr. Applegate is no longer teaching NUT 10 and Dr. Bergman announced at the end of last quarter that she is leaving as well. Schedule builder currently lists the teacher as TBA for the fall.
You will most likely be taking the MAT 17 series as well as the CHE 2 series. Everyone is different but my general rule of thumb is to take two classes math/science classes and two lighter weight classes. Have you looked at the freshman seminars for the fall? https://fys.ucdavis.edu/schedule