Reading some of the threads I get the impression that Revelle Humanities studies are fairly time intensive. I’m accepted for Computer Science so I’ll have that track while at Revelle. I enter having completed 12 AP courses. What I’m trying to figure out is whether it’s realistic that I could also fit a language course into my schedule. I completed AP Spanish, AP Japanese and got to honors level Chinese in HS. I love learning languages and I’m good at it. But now I’m a little worried that Revelle and it’s requirements might not have been the best choice in that CS and HUM would crowd out the ability to study a language or perhaps minor in a language too. Any advice on how to figure this out? Seems like a question for an Academic Advisor. But I’m not a student yet!
Hi again, @CollegeBargain! A lot of Revelle students are CS majors and although you’ve probably already fulfilled the foreign language requirement, many haven’t. Therefore, I can say that it is very feasible to study a language in addition to your major. You can this study out as much as you like, but UCSD has a solid linguistics program with loads of opportunities.
HUM is hard and lengthy, yeah, but it shouldn’t preclude being able to study what you want. A minor might be more difficult, but if you have enough AP credits to eliminate many Revelle GEs you should be good
@groverrohan Thank you again!
@groverrohan I was looking at the HUM 1 reading list and it includes some variant of the bible in each. Are they just looking at specific sections of the bible? Or are we talkin’ cover to cover??
http://revelle.ucsd.edu/humanities/humanities-1/readings.html
Sections for sure. Take a look at a couple professors’ syllabi to get an idea of how many. For John Hoon Lee last quarter (would recommend), it was the entire Book of Genesis, most of Exodus, parts of Numbers, I and II Kings, I and II Samuel and some others
Thank you @groverrohan. Do you have a say in which professor you end up with? Or is that strictly random?
@CollegeBargain if you are transfering in with IGETC you don’t have to take a lot of the normal required classes for Revelle: http://revelle.ucsd.edu/_files/academics/rev-grad-req-trans-oct23-2014.pdf but if you don’t have IGETC you’ll still have to do them I guess.
I would imagine the AP language classes would prob get you a pass through also with that, but you’d have to talk to advising.
(Also just realized I’m not in the transfer thread atm, so probably doesn’t matter!)
@AAMP31B Well it’s not exactly what I was asking here but it happens to be relevant. I’m coming from HS but I took six CC courses during HS all with good grades. I noticed that when ordering transcripts they ask if you want to send a regular transcript or an IGETC or some third type. Since I’m not really transferring per se from a CC I assume I would just send UCSD a regular transcript so I can get credit for the work I’ve completed. Do you know if that would be right? The language requirement I’ve fulfilled three times over already. 
But I’m planning to take on another anyhow. Well at least that’s the plan without having experienced the HUM reading avalanche.
@AAMP31B you choose your professor, because different professors often lecture for the same course at different times. However, the better ones usually fill up fast. Tools that can help you in the future include http://www.ratemyprofessors.com, http://cape.ucsd.edu, and http://asucsd.ucsd.edu/gradeDistribution