<p>If I transfer into UT for fall 2010 for my sophomore year, do I need to take the required freshman Signature course?</p>
<p>I believe we do. [Information</a> for Current Students | School of Undergraduate Studies](<a href=“http://www.utexas.edu/ugs/sig/current_students]Information”>http://www.utexas.edu/ugs/sig/current_students)</p>
<p>And it’s called First Year Signature Course…</p>
<p>It depends on when you started at your current school and I believe what school that is. UT allows Texas CC students to use the catalog and degree requirements that were in effect at the time they started their college education so long as it hasn’t expired yet, but I’m not sure how that affects students transferring from traditional 4-year universities so check with your advisor.</p>
<p>Text from [TCCN/UT</a> Transfer Guides](<a href=“http://www.utexas.edu/student/admissions/tccn/]TCCN/UT”>http://www.utexas.edu/student/admissions/tccn/) :</p>
<p>Guides for current and previous UT Austin catalogs are listed. Students should follow a Guide corresponding to the academic year in which they began attending their community college. Eligibility to graduate under the rules and requirements of a particular UT catalog expires after six years.</p>
<p>In my case, I started at ACC in 2006, and since that catalog will expire after I graduate I can use it and thus don’t have to take the annoying signature course.</p>
<p>Have you completed the UT core curriculum?</p>
<p>[Common</a> Transfer Credit Issues - Core Curriculum](<a href=“http://www.utexas.edu/student/admissions/ate/problems/core.html]Common”>http://www.utexas.edu/student/admissions/ate/problems/core.html)</p>
<p>“Students transferring core-complete from Texas public institutions are not required to enroll in a UT Signature Course.”</p>
<p>We will find out during orientation. I’m hoping we don’t have to, but 2008-2010 degree plan says we do, at least for business majors.</p>
<p>I was told by some of my friends that if they completed a certain dual-credit course they didn’t have to take a UGS class and could follow the older degree plan/catolog. Sorry if this is vague but you might want to ask an adviser…</p>
<p>However, taking a UGS won’t hurt and it might even be an easy A for you :)</p>
<p>I’m a current EE major and we were told if we decided to follow the new 2010-2012 catalog that we would have to go back and take the signature course. But since every freshman has to take the course now there are going to be very few spots for other students, especially for the UGS that includes the writing flag.</p>
<p>Long story short, I’m sticking with the old catalog.</p>
<p>According to myedu, half of the kids in UGS classes get an “A,” and almost all the rest get a “B.” So, just look at it as a GPA booster.</p>
<p>I’m doing a BS in Psychology, if that helpsss.</p>
<p>Thanks for the answers though!</p>
<p>I transfered last year and I didn’t need to take the UGS course either since I was under the 2008-2009 catalog, but I took it anyways .To say it was an easy A was an understatement… it was a really really easy A. So take it for the GPA booster because you will not come across many “easy A” classes at UT, especially now that there is the +/- system.</p>
<p>I just came back from transfer orientation. My adviser says I must take a sig course.</p>
<p>@rp1242, what professor are you taking it with?</p>
<p>Hmm, it won’t let me register for my signature course because the restriction. I’m guessing my adviser is wrong and I don’t need to take one.</p>
<p>Or it is restricted to a certain major/college/or group. Also, my advisers told me that the college is trying to funnel all transfers into UGS 303, and all freshman into UGS 302 (the one with a writing flag) so make sure you are looking at 303.</p>
<p>Which one is easier Dan :)?</p>
<p>It depends on what you like, 303 is more of a lecture course while 302 is flagged as a writing class. There seems to be interesting topics in both, I went with a 303 class in which it looks at poverty in the US through films.</p>
<p>@DenuMx</p>
<p>According to myedu.com, UGS 302 is easier. You can also tell by the course names for 302 such as “Really Bad Drugs,” “Scandinavian Film,” and “Race in the Obama Age,” whereas 303 course names are “Research Methods,” “Thinking about Thinking in Disciplines,” and so on.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, all except for one UGS 302 course is closed last time I checked.</p>
<p>Perhaps more will open up during the next new student orientation?</p>
<p>ah that sucks… Hopefully they’ll open one without writing on 6/28. I’d take a lecture over a research paper.</p>
<p>I transferred into the university last semester and I did not have to take the signature course.</p>
<p>Which catalog are you under? It depends on the year you started.</p>