<p>I'm going to be entering Betkeley in the fall as an Undeclared Engineering major. I'm wondering what courses I should select for my Phase II registration in a few weeks. At this point, I'm fairly uncertain about what direction I want to go in engineering.</p>
<p>At CalSO, I registered for:
Math 1B
Chem 1A/1AL
E 92
E 98</p>
<p>I was thinking for Phase II that I would register for either E 7 or a R&C A course. I only want to take 14 units my first semester so hopefully I have a smoother transition into college. Which course should I register for? If R&C A, what are some of the easier courses that fulfill the requirement? Am I putting myself at a disadvantage by only taking 14 units my first semester?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Take out Math 1B from Phase I and replace it with R&C A course because they tend to get full soon, especially the ones with good time slot or fun topic or supposedly-easy department.</p>
<p>R&C under foreign language departments are known to be easy, but this is purely dependent on your GSIs since she/he’s the one who decides the topic and the syllabus and the grading. I strongly suggest you visit each department’s website and check out a very detailed course description for each section of R&C and pick the one that has the most interesting topic to you.</p>
<p>Are they actually foreign language classes or just themed literature? So is a French R&C class an actual French class or just a class where you read French literature?</p>
<p>Also does anyone have any advice as far as taking E 7 in the fall versus in the spring? I’ve heard that it’s much easier in the spring and that you’re much better off waiting until them to take it.</p>
<p>One more thing haha…</p>
<p>I get priority registration for Phase II (Regents’ Scholar) so do you still recommend switching out Math 1B for an R&C course as part of my Phase I? Don’t math classes fill up very fast as well?</p>
<p>You won’t learn actual French in French R&C but literature written by French authors all in English translation.</p>
<p>I am one of those guys who recommend taking E7 in the spring simply because other courses besides E7 are also demanding, but Math 1B and Chem 1A should be manageable as long as you put in the effort. E7 is a fairly time-consuming class taking about 10~20 hours/week on homework assuming you have very little programming experience. I suppose R&C course is less time-consuming if you compare with E7, but your overall schedule should be fine either with E7 or R&C.</p>
<p>Math classes usually don’t fill up completely. Even if it does, there are too many people dropping out once school starts so there’s space for everybody. I would still sign up for R&C over Math 1B.
And by the way, take Professor Stankova. You will not regret this choice and thank me if you take it with her.</p>
<p>Congratulations on your Regents Scholarship! I know it ain’t easy to get it…</p>