<p>I'm dreading my social issues + writing 140 next semester. dreading.</p>
<p>Absolutely none of the courses are appealing. Some of them may look appealing, but then I'll read senatecourseguide (i know, not a reliable source) and be very, very discouraged.</p>
<p>Are there any courses that are relatively easy (trans: people actually get As if they do all the required work) in which the professor does not take roll like an insane lunatic, and a 12-15 page paper (oh sweet Jesus) is not required? At this point, I don't really care about the diversity requirement!!!</p>
<p>Trust me, that length of a paper will be nothing to you soon. Don't worry about it, it will come easily enough. I'm in TO, though, so I can't comment on anything else.</p>
<p>You always have to take the senatecourseguide reviews with a grain of salt (margarita salt, as it were :))</p>
<p>When looking at senatecourseguide, you want to look more for trends (i.e., everyone loves/hates them) and also specific warning flags. </p>
<p>Reviews like, "hardest professor ever", "impossible to get an A", and "sucks badly", while worth noting, are hard to get any real info out of, mostly because everyone has different opinions (and grades...)</p>
<p>Wait, they get LONGER than 12-15 pages?!?!?!? Frak me up the arse. Please say that's just in TO.</p>
<p>And I tend to agree with senatecourseguide reviews. They helped me get a pretty sweet schedule this semester. Of course there are the really obviously biased ones like "Avoid at all costs!" or "But don’t worry about the grades/homework for this class, what you will learn is 1000x more important." (chyea right, whatever)</p>
<p>IR100 has been cake for me so far. We've had a two pop quizzes on current events, one midterm, and one paper. The average on the paper was an 88.</p>
<p>We're also having a take home final.</p>
<p>Part of this may be due to the fact that the prof. caught some mystery disease when he visited Africa (we now have a new prof for the remainder of the semester) but I still think the course would have been pretty easy.</p>
<p>I haven't really heard of anyone who has had to write a 12-15 page paper...I'm in Writ-140 right now and everyone seems to be following the same schedule. It's five 4-6 page papers a semester and at the end there's a portfolio which is revising some of those papers. So it's actually not that bad at all. I'm not too happy with my Social issues (LA and the American Dream), but I wouldn't say it's a HARD class or anything. My friend is taking Gender Studies (which also takes care of the Diversity Requirement so yay!) and she LOVES it. She loves the professor and her Writ-140 teacher as well. So maybe look into that. :)</p>
<p>I took SOCI 169 (changing family forms) last year. I took it mainly because it fulfilled both cat VI AND diversity, hence SOCI 169gm. It was a pretty easy class; all your writing was in your WRIT 140 class, discussions were a weekly presentation by a pair of students on a minority in the United States, and the tests were almost completely all multiple choice. I blame my B+ on myself because I was overconfident and didn't study for the final.</p>
<p>However, I had Pilliteri and she didn't teach the class last semester. I heard the prof that taught last semester's section made the class a little harder.</p>
<p>A little OT, but something that I was wondering about, what happens when you're taking cat 6 and WRIT-140 and you drop the WRIT-140, but not the cat 6 GE? You have to go back and take WRIT-140 somehow...you just register in the same class's WRIT-140 next semester?</p>
<p>jb, I'm in that exact situation. The advising office told me that I need to retake Writ-140 AND the Cat 6 (albeit a different class). Apparently there is a firm requirement for that link to be present.</p>
<p>i think you can take WRIT*130* independent of the Cat 6 but still fulfill the writing requirement, no? i have a friend who's a music major that's not taking a writing class this semester but is in a social issues. i'm not entirely sure if that's the case with WRIT130 and if anyone can do it, but it might be worth checking out.</p>
<p>sfgiants, who's your IR professor, and would you be confident that the class would be reasonably similar next semester? i've never taken an IR-type class, but it seems reasonably interesting. at least more interesting than my Cat 2 Asian Art History <em>groans</em></p>
<p>It was Prof. Bender, but after he got sick we've had Prof. Siler.</p>
<p>It's possible that Prof. Bender could come back, it's possible that Siler would come back, and it's possible that there will be an entirely new professor. It's basically up in the air right now.</p>
<p>I do know that IR filled up extremely quickly, and I had a hard time getting a slot during the add-drop period (had to sit and refresh the web registration page constantly) As soon as a spot opened up I had to sprint to get D-Clearance for switching into a new Writ-140 section.</p>
<p>Can anyone elaborate on what they think of L.A. AND THE AMERICAN DREAM and/or RACE AND CLASS IN L.A.? Both simultaneously knock off a Cat VI and a diversity requirement. My daughter has heard AMERICAN DREAM is kind of dull (and one post here doesn't really like it) but DREAM fits better with her schedule and she thought the (minimal) description slightly more interesting.</p>
i think you can take WRIT130 independent of the Cat 6 but still fulfill the writing requirement, no? i have a friend who's a music major that's not taking a writing class this semester but is in a social issues. i'm not entirely sure if that's the case with WRIT130 and if anyone can do it, but it might be worth checking out.
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<p>Only select students in the schools of Music, Architecture, or Engineering can take WRIT 130, and when they say "select", they mean "select"</p>
<p>I'm an engineering major, with pretty peculiar scheduling requirements and a really good excuse, but I don't meet the criteria. They are quite fixed in who gets to take WRIT130.</p>
<p>NONONONONONNONNO DO NOT TAKE LA AND THE AMERICAN DREAM. THE TITLE IS MISLEADING IN THE UTMOST MEANING OF THE WORD. IT IS ACTUALLY A GEOGRAPHY CLASS. NOT ONCE HAS THE AMERICAN DREAM ACTUALLY EVER BEEN DEFINED IN THE CLASS!!!!!!!!! DONNNN'T TAKE IT. It's so dull. And it's not just me...seriously. I haven't talked to anyone in the class or in my discussion who actually enjoys it.</p>
<p>Since this has degenerated into a discussion of GE's in general, does anyone know anything about ARLT 100/101 Los Angeles: The Fiction? I still have my Cat V to do and I was thinking about taking that this spring...</p>