<p>Hi!</p>
<p>This upcoming fall I'll be a senior at a career and technical academy in Las Vegas, Nevada. I am 99% sure on going for Civil Engineering, whichever university i am headed for. My counselor has me down for Photography and Graphic Design II next year (i took my Graphic Design I freshman year). I thought these two artsy classes will have me more prepared for civil engineering and design. I just found out though that UNLV requires civil engineers to take intro to geology their freshman year. I'm now considering changing Graphic Design II to Geoscience Honors as a second science class (AP Physics B the first). So should I stay with Graphic Design or change it to Geoscience? Which is more relevant for Civil Engineers? Any insight would help alot! Thanks!</p>
<p>Geology/Geoscience comes in handy down the road when you take soil mechanics and foundations so there’s a reason it’s in the curriculum (as it was in my days). It’s not likely you can AP your way out of freshman geology, but it’s a lot of reading and it can’t hurt to have seen the material once.</p>
<p>Thanks Turbo! Yeah, I’d like to clarify that Geoscience at my school is a High School Honors class. My school will begin offering AP Environmental Science starting this fall but I rather not take two AP sciences. I wonder if computer work/drafting is needed at all in civil engineering since its seeming like its not.</p>
<p>Bump! More advice guys!</p>
<p>AP Env Sci is supposed to be ‘easy’. Interesting stuff, and you might find something you like in Env Sci side of CE. A friend’s friend is making serious money designing sewers (kid you not, very challenging work).</p>
<p>Where would I use Ap Env Sci in the Civil Engineering Curriculum though?</p>
<p>Well, I was talking to DD2 about this today. If the objective is to learn stuff before taking it again in college, either AP EnvSci or AP RockScience would work. If the objective is to save yourself a few credit hours or dollars, like DD2 wants to do, then count how many General Education type stuff UNLV needs, and take those. </p>
<p>In general, colleges will not give credit for AP for classes in their major curriculum. Go down the list of non engineering electives in your school’s curriculum, see what’s left (not much unfortunately like most engineering schools) and scratch off a couple or a few via AP. </p>
<p>I’m looking at the UNLV Civil Eng degree course thingie document and alas, maybe 3 humanity /social studies classes that could be AP’d away (ask first :)), a FINE ARTS requirement, and a US Constitution course requirement. I’d AP my way around any and all of those if need be (ask the school first, once again). </p>
<p>Check back with us in 3 years once you’re done with Soil Mechanics and Soil Mechanics Lab. Between that and Material Science Lab you’ll have plenty of fun! Not so sure about doing surveying lab in hot weather tho…</p>
<p>I would go with geology… mainly because the subject is awesome and graphic design will be absolutely worthless to you in CE. Since geo is required for the CE curriculum, I think the choice is obvious.</p>
<p>Turbo, I will have taken APUSH, AP Calc AB and AP Physics B by the time I graduate high school and apparently, only AP Calc will get me out of a core class my freshman year. APUSH will not fulfill the “Nevada” part of social studies and AP Physics B is not engineering physics and is only worth a general science credit i think. </p>
<p>jbrussell, thanks but can you elaborate a little on how Graphic Design is worthless? I must be interpreting the concept of design incorrectly…</p>
<p>*From what I’m seeing, it seems like I should change to Geoscience for the better…</p>
<p>Bump! Does anyone else have anymore advice?</p>
<p>Then summer classes it is :D</p>
<p>I’d avoid AP’ing Calculus. Take it again, won’t hurt you.</p>
<p>I’m taking AP Calc as a way to get ready for freshman year calc, i don’t really intend to skip it haha</p>
<p>Last Bump for a while!</p>