<p>How's the workload for Econ undergrad at Chicago? How's the competition- is everyone at others' throats?</p>
<p>Also, is it possible to do a modified major with Poli Sci and Econ?</p>
<p>The workload is moderate. Nothing extremely heavy, nowhere near as bad as other majors.</p>
<p>You cannot modify any majors, but you can double major.</p>
<p>what would be considered the "heavy" majors, outside of pre-med and the hard sciences?</p>
<p>In general, the math and science related majors are heavy on course load work with the exception of Economics, which is moderate. Another heavy one is Fundamentals. </p>
<p>Some of the "lighter" majors include IR, Cinema & Media studies, and Romance Languages (specificlly Italian, a very light major), but just because they are "light" doesn't mean you won't be working.</p>
<p>East Asian studies is also very heavy (as it is at many schools). If you're taking something like intro Chinese, taking a reduced course load isn't a bad idea.</p>
<p>I am interested in the Law, Letters, and Society major--I've been considering law school lately. How is it in terms of "load" and why is there a numbers cap on admittees? In general, how many classes do students take per quarter--is 4 + p/t work too much if you want to be involved in EC? w/o working?</p>
<p>how's philosophy in terms of workload?</p>
<p>I'm interested in East Asian Studies but I think I want to major in bio. Could I minor in East Asian Studies? (I had once considered--briefly--double majoring, but I don't think doing that with bio and east asian studies is a good idea)</p>
<p>Law, Letters and Society is a fun little major - I'll be graduating with an LLSO degree in the Spring, though I probably should've just graduated early. The load question is sort of tricky. The major itself is 11 courses long. The first one, the one you take in Autumn of your second year, is Legal Reasoning taught by Dennis Hutchinson, chair of the division in which LLSO and the other "weird" majors are housed. You have to take this class to be an LLSO major and it's this class that they're capping in order to cap the major. </p>
<p>No clue as to why they're capping the number of LLSO kids or why, exactly, you have to apply to be one. My second year, Hutch offered two Legal Reasoning classes, meaning there could be as many as eighty or so (I'm guessing here) LLSO kids graduating this Spring. Last year they had a giant debacle, with the registrar forgetting to cap the class in the online system (it used to be capped at about 50) and fortyish kids being booted from the class. Maybe that's why they're capping it? My personal bet is that either Hutchinson or the Administration decided that the concentration was too "easy" or flexible and wanted to limit the number of kids who can pick it. Plus, they can always just be political science concentrators, right?</p>
<p>Back to the workload, however... You can take either 3 or 4 classes a quarter and still be a normal U of C student. Some people take more, I guess? And I suppose some people are part time. The courses really vary as far as intensity and workload are concerned. Last quarter I had one class that had some reading I occasionally completed and a giant final at the end and then another with about a hundred pages of reading for each session and I read every single page. The other two were toss-ups, the workload changing every week. You can also take a lot of non-LLSO classes to complete your general LLSO class requirement (6 of them to be exact) and a lot of classes are crosslisted. Hutchinson sends out a list at the end of each quarter to let students know which classes from that quarter will automatically give you LLSO credit; for all other classes, you can harass him into letting it count. </p>
<p>So I suppose I'm saying that it's as hard as you make it and you'll work as much as you want and choose to work (just a hint... all of college is like that, regardless of your major unless, of course, you're pre-med). I've taken four classes in every quarter except one, worked 20-25 hours a week since the middle of my first year and presided over an RSO on campus for the past yearish and will do so next year as well. I still have lots of friends, lots of fun and love it here!</p>