<p>Hey, I'm a premed prospective biology major, and I was wondering if this would be a good schedule for the following classes: </p>
<p>Writing 20, Chem 21, Econ 51, Psych 11, some other half credit maybe?</p>
<p>How's the workload for this if anyone knows?</p>
<p>It looks extremely manageable to me as long as that Chemistry class isn't Orgo.</p>
<p>Haha yeah, I'm jealous.</p>
<p>I'm taking math. I hate math :(</p>
<p>Looks pretty good.. I've heard that Chem 21 has a tough curve and Econ 51 (depending on the prof..) can be a pretty tough class. Besides that, challenging enough to be interesting but definitely manageable.</p>
<p>Sorry to hijack your thread dude(we might as well not have a million threads though where all the freshman are asking for advice regarding their schedule), but how does my prospective schedule look?</p>
<p>2 FOCUS classes(Europe&Asia cluster)+seminar
Math 102: Bray
Econ 51D: Fullenkamp</p>
<p>Bray! He's great! I had him for math 103, great guy. Your schedule sounds fine. I haven't taken Econ 51 but my impression from talking to people who have taken it is that is isn't terribly difficult but it isn't easy. Also no clue on the focus classes but they are usually pretty easy as well I think. (at least grade wise anyway)</p>
<p>yeah yours looks good...I hear 102 is better than 103 for econ people</p>
<p>I'm also a prospective Biology major and I was wondering if you could help me with my schedule as well...I've got FOCUS taking up two of my classes (plus the obvious seminar) so I've got two openings that I have no idea what to do with. I've been assuming that I'm starting chemistry to fulfill bio requirements there, so I have Chem21 filling up a hell of a lot of my schedule. Past that I don't know what to do...should I start a foreign language or work on a different requirement? I want something relatively easy.</p>
<p>only do foreign lang if you think you're good at it...if not, take some humanity I suppose to fullfill a requirement</p>
<p>Well I'm going from taking Spanish in high school to taking Italian in college...only doing it because it's required, really.</p>
<p>wow, same here, but not starting for a year or 2...</p>
<p>italian at duke is easy</p>
<p>why is italian easier than other languages interpol?</p>
<p>bump...anyone know?</p>
<p>for a number of reasons.....</p>
<ol>
<li><p>it only meets 4 times a week instead of 5 (same amount of time in class though because instead of 50 min, its 75 twice a week)</p></li>
<li><p>so many people take spanish in high school and then do italian, which is so similar that learning vocab/grammar is easier for those people</p></li>
<li><p>compared to chinese or japanese which has a diff alphabet and a completely diff set of rules for everything, italian is just plain easier for an english speaker.</p></li>
<li><p>many football players and athletes are advised to take italian because the department has good instructors and isnt ridiculously rigorous or painful</p></li>
</ol>
<p>How would you compare the workloads of CS 100 to Spanish 63?
I'm kind of thinking that both are a lot of work. I guess for CS 100 it's
lot of programming assignments and understanding while
Spanish 63 it's lot of homeworks and memorizing and practicing?
Anyway which one would you say takes more time?</p>
<p>Only if there weren't seminar or writing reqs.......</p>
<p>1.) At least with Chinese, it was five times a week but two were 75. So Italian is a net savings of 50 minutes.</p>
<p>2.) To agree with you, I've found that I speak Spanish and can therefore actually read Italian quite functionally.</p>
<p>3.) You have to take an FL sometime. They're very time intensive but otherwise not particularly strenuous. Chinese in particular is a lot of busywork but very little actual challenge -- copying your characters ten times each can sometimes make a nice break from studying chemical reactions.</p>