<p>Can anyone recommend first-year classes for an English major? Thanks</p>
<p>doesnt matter much. you have to take </p>
<p>english 3 --> 4w --> 10A --> 10B ---> 10C </p>
<p>in order. some of the classes are prerequisites for the upper divs - like, you have to take 10A + 10B for the Shakespeare classes </p>
<p>otherwise, youre going to be stuck taking those lower divs first, your GE classes, writing II classes, and well, foreign language and possibly, a few upperdiv english classes if youre so inclined... and if youve either fulfilled the prereqs or petitioned to take a specific course [which ucan certainly do within english dept]</p>
<p>I'm an English major, too. My AP Lit test gets me out of Engish comp 3. Should I start with 4W/4HW and then take a 10 class each of the next quarters, with 10C being in the second year? Also, I'm doing the UCLA college honors program. Should I take 4HW? How much is it different from 4W?</p>
<p>You have to take 4W in order tyo start the 10 series. 10C is offered almost every quarter. Depends on the instructor for 4HW. Some 4W classes are restricted to English majors if you want an intermediate level of 'difficulty' for those like yourself</p>
<p>Packer is the instructor for 4HW this fall. Any insight?</p>
<p>I don't think the professor matters, didnt see any input from him. Actually never saw him at all. It's all organised by the TA and...that information isn't out yet.
I found 4w tremendously easy so no probs there.</p>
<p>Graduate students as TAs are constantly changing on a quarterly basis... so it's kinda random and hard to get much insight about individual instructors...</p>
<p>Hey SaltyBruin, what classes are you planning? It's nice to meet a fellow English major :D</p>
<p>Likewise! Um, tentatively:</p>
<p>English 4HW
Hist. Modern Thought Cluster (even though no one here likes it)
Marching Band
Fiat Lux (or another few-unit class)</p>
<p>I want a free and relatively easy first quarter. Then I'll hopefully start the English 10 series in Winter quarter. How about you?</p>
<p>ooo i liked hist.modern.thought. Though i went into it thinking that it would be sth akin to an english class...but it rly wasn't. They style and approach to philisophical/historical essays and readings was very different from english analysis even when reading similar books like Dickens, 80 Days Round the World etc. It took me the entire first quarter and numerous well dissapointing grades to adjust my style to fit history essays rather than english essays. Well I'm probably the only one here stupid enough to enroll into that without knowing that =P but just incase, throwing it out there.</p>
<p>Um, seeing as I have had pretty much no history in two years and TONS of English-paper-writing experience in AP Lit/Comp, would you like to throw out a couple pointers, Changeling?</p>
<p>^Talk to your TA who does most if not all of the grading. Not much else to say.</p>
<p>yeah i had the same problem.
actually by my spring quarter my ta was still commenting that it looks like i was writing literature papers.
well some general stuff is passive voice vs active voice, past vs presemt chicago vs mla.
but well in general english ur looking at the reasons why the author uses words, and what he may mean by it, and themes etc.</p>
<p>in hmt ur looking more...at what the authors ideas were, as plainly stated in their text and how they were relevant to affected by, and affected the events and other thinkers in their time.</p>
<p>imo ur looking less in depth about what the authors meann, are trying to say, but looking at what those authors mean for society, what effect they have on the world around them.</p>
<p>also get used to writing essays comparing like 6 different people =.='' (that was in the final)</p>
<p>if u require more elucidation just tell me and i'll try to compose a more useful guide later.</p>
<p>SaltyBruin:</p>
<p>Considering (in addition to English) Ling 1 as a GE and Chinese 4A. Not too sure yet though.</p>
<p>I'm thinking I might Ling 1 for life science GE, but in a later quarter. Which English are you planning on taking?</p>
<p>saltybruin... i hope you aren't only planning on taking two classes. i mean, i know that eng4w and HMT are 5 units each, and with band that's 12, and with a fiat lux that's 13...</p>
<p>but only two classes seems a bit light. you should sign up for three to get the most of your quarter. find some easy GE, and you're up to 18. decide by week 2 or 4 that you don't want one of your classes, and it's back down to 13, no problem. but speaking from experience, HMT and two other classes and marching band isn't a problem your first quarter. (my first quarter was HMT, life science 15, physics 10, and band)</p>
<p>But it sounds so nice! I don't think I need to be in that big a hurry to get classes done. But I'll think about it.</p>
<p>Taking Eng. Comp 3</p>
<p>Is it possible to not take math/calculus at all if I passed the AB exam?</p>
<p>You don't have to take math at all if you're an English major.</p>