<p>false!
My general take on the Hass Req (along with people I've talked to) is that it greatly increases student apathy. Especially when you like all your classes...but then you have this ugly HASS rearing it's heard. Blurgh.</p>
<p>Gee. Students I know really <em>like</em> their HASS classes.</p>
<p>It depends on the HASS class... I have had to take a few classes I didn't really like just because they had to be in different categories.</p>
<p>I did however enjoy my economics and spanish HASS classes :D!</p>
<p>(Yes economics is HASS!)</p>
<p>I like my writing class immensely :)</p>
<p>thanks very much. :) It sounds like I'll opt to keep it to one humanties course freshmen year--I suspected that would be wise, but I just wanted to confirm.</p>
<p>I personally have all these HASS courses I really want to take (linguistics? anthropology? art history? Too many!), and plus I want to take Japanese, so I'm glad to hear that taking more than one humanities in a semester is cool... So if I were to take 60 units or whatever in a semester, but 24 of them were HASS classes, would it still be one of those "hard 5-class semesters", or would it be pretty normal, since HASS classes aren't as intense?</p>
<p>"So if I were to take 60 units or whatever in a semester, but 24 of them were HASS classes, would it still be one of those "hard 5-class semesters", or would it be pretty normal, since HASS classes aren't as intense?"</p>
<p>I believe that to be accurate in general. It might vary based upon the HASS class though, so you might want to check it out first. In general, it definitely seems doable . :)</p>
<p>hey, dally, I'm in a similar HASS-overflow boat! (as I hinted at earlier) even one with Japanese, how cool. :P ) In your hypothetical situation collegeguy deemed doable, how many HASS classes is that? (sorry, I'm not yet used to the units thing)</p>
<p>24 units is two classes.</p>
<p>In general most full classes are 12 units :)</p>
<p>So ive tried for quite a bit but i cant really figure out how to pursue a Visual arts major/minor/HASS Concentration in way that incorporates drawing and painting. (Dont worry, I'm not going to MIT just for art, I'm gonna Major in Course 7) All the classes at MIT, both foundations and advanced, are sculpture, video, performance, and installation, all of which i have little to no interest in. I Have heard of the joint program MIT shares with local Art schools... Can I take classes there for drawing and painting that will fufill the necessary credit for the major/minor/HASS programs?</p>
<p>Is the chemistry AS <em>that</em> tough?</p>
<p>Pyrocide, you can definitely take cross-registered courses for HASS credit. To use them for major or minor credit, you'd have to petition, and that would involve a little more red tape.</p>
<p>when are tryouts for cheerleading mollie and how hard is it to get in! :P</p>
<p>molliebatmit-
what does it mean to petition?</p>
<p>i have a couple of questions</p>
<p>1) can undergrads take courses in Media Arts and Sciences?
2) if so, can you get them to count toward the HASS requirement somehow? toward a concentration (like visual arts)?
or do you just have to take them as extra electives?
i'm asking because some seem very humanities based, while others seem very "art meets technology"-like</p>
<p>Petitioning: is not about sit-ins or getting 5000 signatures.</p>
<p>It's just some legwork you have to do within departments and student services to get courses counted as something they are not meant originally to be counted. For example, for 6.001 to count for my course 16 requirements (back when I was course 16 :P) in place of 1.00 I would have had to fill out a form and contact some people. Thats all.</p>
<p>thanks pebbles</p>
<p>Undergrads can definitely take courses in Media Arts and Sciences -- see the courses with a "U" next to them in the subject</a> listing? Those are undergrad classes. :) </p>
<p>Undergrads are almost always welcome to take grad classes, too, although it looks like a lot of the MAS grad subjects are cross-listed with undergrad subjects (for example, MAS.641 is the same class as MAS.241).</p>
<p>If you can count a class toward the HASS requirement, there's a little book symbol under its name in the course catalogue (like the one under MAS.110).</p>
<p>^thanks=D
that is awesome
i'm definitely taking a few of those</p>
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Some of those categories overlap -- for example, many HASS distribution classes are also communication intensive, and you can concentrate in an area in which you took a HASS-D/CI-H, if you want.
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<p>If they do overlap, do they still just satisfy one requirement?</p>