<p>I was recently accepted as a transfer student and also granted the summer grant that will pay for all my expenses this summer. Thus, I am going to take two courses this summer, which include Philosophy 25A and Political Science 116P(I am double majoring).</p>
<p>I am hoping that possibly someone on here can provide some insight into these two courses. </p>
<p>How difficult will they be? Is it a good idea considering that this will be my first semester at Berkeley? How many pages will I need to read every week? Is it feasible to attempt to come out with straight A's?</p>
<p>Any input is appreciated, thank you.</p>
<p>I’m curious about this also. I want to take Intro to Cognitive Science and something to satisfy the American Cultures requirement. I know we have to maintain a 3.0 in these courses.</p>
<p>And did they cover your housing too? I think mine just covers up to 12 units. </p>
<p>I don’t have any info on those specific courses, sorry! Remember that summer moves twice as fast. Taking 8 units during an 8 week session is equivalent to 16 in a normal semester. Which is probably right on track with how many you should be doing. Some classes will take much more time than others, but for the most part 8 units won’t be too bad.</p>
<p>Past grade distributions can be found on schedulebuilder: <a href=“https://schedulebuilder.berkeley.edu/explore/”>https://schedulebuilder.berkeley.edu/explore/</a>
Pick a department and a class, go to the grade distribution tab. Summer session grades usually aren’t posted there and it tends to have new/different professors, but it’ll give you an idea of how that department does grading and what to expect.</p>
<p>Also, I did 8 units when I was first transferring… I took CS61A and CS61BL together, it was a bad choice. 8 units wasn’t completely overwhelming, but constant labs take up a ton of time, and CS tends to have heavier workloads than other courses. :P</p>
<p>@credulitykills </p>
<p>They are covering my housing too, and I think it should cover yours as well. </p>
<p>@failure622 </p>
<p>It is actually six weeks ;p, that is, if you are enrolled to take classes in session D. How did you end up doing in that summer? I am trying to avoid getting anything lower than A’s in my first semester. Was the transition difficullt in terms of housing?</p>
<p>@Derhund12 I did okay… A+ in one class, a B in the other. I know I would’ve done better than a B if I had had less going on… but with the number of pre-reqs I was missing, I kinda had to do it that way. There were a lot of days where homework or projects for the one class overlapped with labs and projects for the other, and there simply wasn’t enough time to go around. I usually commute during summers, so I didn’t have to do any adjusting with housing. For normal semesters it’s never been a big problem for me, dorms are easy to find, people are friendly, and it’s mostly idiot-proof.</p>
<p>@failure622 That’s not bad at all. I would infer through induction that course work will overlap since the work is crunched into half the time. </p>
<p>On a different note, do you know if you are charged more than normal if you are double majoring? </p>