<p>I was just wondering how crucial it is to take a theology or philosophy course your first year. In the FYS academic guide it suggests that students take one but the way my schedule is working out I don't see that happening. I want to take the psychology/language seminar to get a behavioral science requirement out of the way for my business major. Would it be a better idea to just take either a theology or philosophy seminar and wait to get the behavioral science course requirement later?</p>
<p>Hopefully this is what my schedule will be
1. Seminar - Psychology
2. Mathematics - MATH 10250
3. Natural Science (topical science) - BIOS 10119: Evolution and Society (taught by Filchak)
4. Elective - ECON 10010/10011: Principles of Microeconomics
5. Elective - EALC 10111 and 10112: Intensive First Year Chinese 1 and 2
6. PE</p>
<p>Taking a philosophy or theology your first year is merely a suggestion. I think the reason it is suggested is because in your sophomore, junior, and senior years you will have few intro courses opened for you to enroll in because many of the intro courses are for freshman only. If you take a philosophy or theology now you will have more professors and times to choose from.</p>
<p>On the other hand, many freshmen don’t get ANY of the courses for which they registered, and end up with course and professors that were not their first choice. If the exact course and/or professor are important to you, it may make sense to wait and take these classes later.</p>
<p>the way scheduling work, it is very possible that you don’t end up with any of your choices, just the requirements of your major. There are 4 seminar and then FYC from which you will get one, so you have a 20% chance of getting that seminar that you really want. You will get your math class b/c there that is so common, and you have to list 6 electives on the course selection and so you may not get the two you want, but since you are going into business, you will most likely get the economic class and i would think that not everyone selects the chinese class so that gives you a better chance. The science one is pretty general though. </p>
<p>I suggest that you talk classes that you will like (yes all 4 seminars and 6 electives should be “enjoyable to you”) and let it be. You will have a lot more control over second semester, but this is the way it works, and I don’t think it is useful to start trying to figure out what your schedule will be like, because no one really knows. </p>
<p>At least wait until August 24th when we can sit down with our advisor and really talk about things that are concrete. I suggest that once you get your schedule really plan what you want to talk to your advisor with and more important then start planning what you want to take going forward (ie second semester)</p>
<p>I did have a longer post worked out, but I realized that it was necessarily helpful given that each student’s situation is different. I will however, remind thefoodie that your sophomore year will be relatively dominated by business requirements - Mendoza suggests 25 credits worth of classes to be completed over sophomore year (about 4 to 5 classes per semester).</p>
<p>Have fun with Filchak’s class, I really enjoyed it.</p>