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Hey freak. You told me you wanted to drop it after the first two weeks cuz you suck at it. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>How are the upper DIV GE's? Anythign interesting? How about something like Intro to Animation, it seems itneresting but the professors dont' have a rating on Bruinwalk. Any suggestions?</p>
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Hey freak. You told me you wanted to drop it after the first two weeks cuz you suck at it. :rolleyes:
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<p>Cos I do. :( Don't gotta rub it in.</p>
<p>Cuz you do? Just like how you suck at everything else? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Im thinking about taking A&O 3 with LEW for spring. Unfortunately i wont be able to make it to his class on Wed's ... should I still take it ?</p>
<p>since it's lew you might be able to get away with it. it might be harder to get an A because you'll probably miss some of his in class quizzes, but if there is a class you can miss its probably his.</p>
<p>I just want to take his class for a gpa boost which i can really use right now. I can move my physics lab to 7 in the evening and be able to show up to all his lectures but I really didn't want to have to do that...</p>
<p>How's Linguistics M10? Anyone taken it (The Structure of English Words)?</p>
<p>i had a friend who took it and she hated it. i don't remember her exact rant.</p>
<p>suffice to say you'll know a helluva lotta latin roots, and way too much than you'd ever wanna know about what makes up a word.</p>
<p>don't take it if you don't like nitpicky stuff and memorization.</p>
<p>I've taken Linguistics M10/English M40. Took it over the summer last year during Session A. A freshly minted PhD taught the course - Dr. Operstein. If I had taken it during the Winter Quarter of that year, I would've actually had Professor Minkova (or was it Stockwell? I don't quite recall) but there was an intense list of Latin/Greek roots/morphemes for the latter. For the instructor I had, she was not quite as rigorous as M/S's syllabus and I still managed to learn a lot. You do things like parse words (split them into morphemes), add affixes/suffixes/prefixes to words, learn etymologies of words and different types of etymological roots, and also, how to form words... things like: </p>
<p>polycephalous (multiple heads)... where poly is a prefix and also, of Greek-root origin... hence 'ous' at the end
acephalous (without a head)... where ous is an adjective-forming suffix
pterodactyl (literally, winged fingers)... where o is a filler </p>
<p>You dig? Yeah... it was fun. Operstein was great. Easy grader and well, I learned a lot so yea! [A- in class though.]</p>
<p>I don't love memorizing random stuff, but I LOVE English and words and voluminous vocabulary. So, sounds cool. Do you think it would be very difficult during the year, as a GE?</p>
<p>Depends on the professor and the syllabus but yes go ahead and try it out! :-)</p>
<p>Thanks mme-lin :)</p>
<p>Is Classics 30 (Classical Mythology) particularly difficult? I saw in older threads that it is a lot of reading, but are the HW and tests hard? I thought it might come in hand for my English major.</p>
<p>Short answer is no but again depends on the professor. Sampled it during the summer when a freshly minted PhD was teaching it. Syllabus looked interested. Didn't take the course. As for your English major - possibly might be helpful for motifs or whatever.</p>
<p>Exactly. Like Joyce's allusion to the Icarus/Daedalus/labyrinth myth in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, among many others I encountered in my lit/comp class last year.</p>
<p>Has anyone actually taken Classics 30?</p>
<p>Just read Hamilton's Mythology. Otherwise, you're stuck reading like, Sophocles and Aeschylus when they aren't directly relevant. That and get annotated books in the instance that you, for some reason, cannot take Classical Mythology. Or better, get a sample of the syllabus and pick and choose what do you think is appropriate - or even BETTER, talk to your professor about motifs and allusions that you could absolutely not miss out on when reading Joyce et al. I somehow doubt that it will matter that you take the course formally... but you know, there's always that 'intellectual curiosity' within the likes of you and me... poor, foolish souls.</p>
<p>mmk so if im going the life science route it says i need 4 GE classes from scientific inquiry. but LS 1, LS2, and physics 6A-6C are all considered GEs and necessary for my major.</p>
<p>so does that mean im done for science GEs?</p>
<p>Mme-lin, I definitely share that 'intellectual curiosity,' but I also want to minimize certain work so I can focus on pursuing other things, like a minor, credential, and honors. So many opportunities, so little time (and $$$).</p>
<p>And I own Hamilton's wonderful little anthology. I read it thoroughly in 9th grade English. That was an awesome year! :D</p>
<p>Yes, it means you're done for your GEs. One of the life science courses requires a 'lab' or 'demo' - that's the LS series. The other LS courses does not need to require it. You can use LS 1 and 2 to satisfy both of the courses. Physics 6A will cover one of the non-lab physical science GEs while Physics 4AL/BL or Chemistry20A/BL or 14AL/BL/etc. will cover your physical science with lab GE requirement. Bottom line: don't worry about it (DWAI). </p>
<p>SaltyBruin12, I think you are worrying excessively at this point. For now, take your English 4HW (if possible), a GE, another GE, or a foreign language course... since you're under a limited trajectory of time and flexibility for completing your lower-division English major requirements.</p>