<p>Hello:</p>
<p>I am a first year student here, and am considering taking classes in summer, in particular Math and a GE. How is the UCI campus like during the summer, and how are summer classes taught? Are they harder, and are the professors, generally speaking, the same quality as the ones in Fall/Winter/Spring?</p>
<p>Please tell me any information you know of about UCI summer session.</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>its a five week class so the lectures are really fast pace than the quarter system, though the quarter system is also fast. I thin you just tneed to get your work done really fast.</p>
<p>It’s not always 5 weeks. There’s the 10-week summer session as well, although when each class is offered varies. IMO, if you can, take the classes at a community college, especially GE classes. It’ll be much cheaper, in the summer you pay by units ($229 per unit, not including other fees).
I personally haven’t taken summer school so I wouldn’t know what it’s like, but I’ve noticed that a handful of the professors are different than the ones during the school year. and I’d assume it’s much more work than the normal school year for the 5 week ones… because now you’re cramming the same amount of information/chapters in but in half the time, which is why classes are longer, but that’s why people generally only take 1-2 classes.</p>
<p>I’m sorry for butting in, but, I’m interested in taking a course over the summer at UCI. I want to take Physics 2 or Chemistry 1A. I’m a newly admitted freshman and I do not want to partcipate in the FSSP or any such program. I just want to take the course. Is it possible?</p>
<p>^I think the only way you can take summer courses is if you’re enrolled in FSSP. I think the only course you can take without FSSP is Writing 39A.</p>
<p>^^ I was planning on going to the FSSP, however, when I checked the Approved course list for Engineering majors>>>> Physics 2 and Chemistry 1A do not show up anywhere.</p>
<p>I’m guessing you’re an engineering major. Since they aren’t offering those two courses, I believe FSSP does not offer major required prerequisite courses. You can probably take GE’s however to get ahead, or maybe even math.</p>