<p>Hey all you anteater bio majors.. I'm wandering what your schedules are gonna look like. I heard of this "humanities core" series and I'm wondering if that is better or the alternative of taking the regular writing series. I know this is a little early, but i'd like to find out what you're all planning on doing--if you know of course. Thanks.</p>
<p>Hey, I won't be in the biological science department, but I have a link with some sample schedules if it would help.</p>
<p>If you take humanities, your schedule would be something like this:</p>
<p>Humanities Lecture (4)
Humanities Discussion (4)
Bio 93 (4)
Chem 1A (4)</p>
<p>You should try to stick with 12 units ur first quarter... i planned out my schedule so that will only take 3 courses... or 12 units... from now till i graduate... I hope I covered all the requirements</p>
<p>Ah, that sounds good amiradaprincess. The recommended schedule for an engineer is like 15-17 units a quarter from the beginning to the end =. I COULD lighten my load by staying another quarter...but I think I rather not.</p>
<p>Oh yeah... and it will take me 3 years and 2 quarters to double major... :-)</p>
<p>Since UCI is a quarter system how many classes per week do you usually have....and how long our the classes???? And do you always have classes 5 days a week?</p>
<p>It depends how you create your schedule. Normally, I think students take between 12-17 units a quarter. These units are determined by the classes. For example, calculus can be five units, so you would take only a few more classes to hit 12 units. I don't know the schedules for UCI, but I'm a high school student in a community college (with semesters). I am currently signed up for 12 units, and my classes are: mon/wed 6:15-8:40pm (calc2:5 units), tues thurs 7:45am-9:10am (eng1a: 3 units), 10:45am-12:10pm(philosophy: 3 units). I COULD stuff it all in like two days worth of classes per week haha. I hope my example helps.</p>
<p>hey so i was looking at that sample schedual for biosci and life seems pretty booked. looks like we'll have our fair share of biosci, chem, humanities and math freshman year so where would i squeeze the english classes in? anybody know how many we have to take? they didn't include it...isn't it apart of the freshman schedual too?</p>
<p>"Oh yeah... and it will take me 3 years and 2 quarters to double major... :-)"</p>
<p>With 12 units a quarter? What majors?</p>
<p>yea, if you're a bio major, your first 2 years are pretty much set. Humanities is considered english class. it satisfy both writing and humanities requirment.</p>
<p>so alicante.. would u recommend me doing hum core? or taking writing 39b and c? that's my dilemma at the moment.. do u have the pros and cons maybe = ) Thanks.</p>
<p>Take humcore.</p>
<p>I recommend Humanities Core for a couple of reasons. First of all, it takes care of more requirements than the Writing Series does. If you take Humanities, you take care of category I, IV, and VII-a. If you take writing, you would only take care of category I. Then you'd have to take another 3-course series to do category IV, and then one more class on top of that for category VII-a. </p>
<p>Second, I think it's a great course. Because it combines reading with writing, it trains you to read critically and think critically. It really pushes your limits as a writer. With the Writing series, you usually don't have to read a book and then write about it. Usually you're just writing essays about various topics and you lose out on that critical reasoning part of it. </p>
<p>So if you want to be a doctor, you have to do well on the writing portion of the MCAT. Humanities will prepare you better for that.</p>
<p>YACKITYYACK- Psychology and Social Behavior/Criminology, Law, and Society.... I already fulfilled breadths V-IIB... and another one... and i'm finishing science this summer at a community college... and once i get to UCI... a lot 'em overlap... and i'm taking the writing 39 series because humcore is hard and I hate reading all this literature all the time... hum core is 8 units... writing is 4.. and humcore is three quarters... writing is 2... i think that u should do writing and get rid of the other breadths at CCs... much easier that way...</p>
<p>well if you've already gotten rid of breadths then probably don't take humcore cause you wouldn't want those classes to go to waste but if you haven't, take humcore. It'll be better for you in a long run and it ends up being less work overall which a lot of people don't realize. They just see that it's an 8 unit class and freak out.</p>
<p>I haven't fulfilled the breadths that humcore fulfills... but i'm still gonna stick with the writing series because it does not involve much literature...</p>