<p>hopefully that wont happen. at least for the CCers, aka berkeley 4.0 geniuses! w00t w00t! we should make berkeley CC an actual club HAHAHA. how lame would that be...</p>
<p>Thank you for all the warning, we'll see.</p>
<p>History 5
French R1A
Theater 24
French 1
Spanish 22</p>
<p>Total: 16 Units.</p>
<p>Drab, i think i meant 16. it was typo, each class is 4 units.</p>
<p>Oh, sorry to sound so accusatory. I was just curious if the policy was different for different colleges. I know, for instance, that some colleges allow students to take more overall units each semester- don't tell twitb, though. I want him to have all the free time he can get. :)</p>
<p>lol no need to be sorry</p>
<p>Majoring in chem</p>
<p>Math 53
Phys 7A
Chem 4A
Chem seminar
PE 1</p>
<p>Total units: 13.5</p>
<p>According to my advisor Maura Daly, it's still a heavy load because my classes are all technical classes.</p>
<p>Yes, you have classes mostly in the sciences and mathematics. I would go insane if I had only those classes.</p>
<p>Math 53
Phys 7B (Will try to get into H7B)
Engineering 77
African American Studies 27AC (3 credits)
2 Seminars</p>
<p>Total: 17 (15 excluding seminars)</p>
<p>May drop a class if I see it ain't goin' well after the first week or two.</p>
<p>anyone taking any upper divs their first semester?</p>
<p>Yeah. And, if you are, what background in the subect do you have, and why did you want to take the up div class?</p>
<p>No upper division classes for me; I may have had taken college classes before, but upper division classes are usually intended for juniors and seniors (and sometimes sophomores) who have a strong background from two years of work at a university already. </p>
<p>Only a handful upper division classes are manageable for freshmen, one of them being a poli sci class with guest speakers coming in worth one unit.</p>
<p>I am going to sign up for an upper division class in, ARTH 160: Renaissance Art in Florence. I've passed the intro course through my AP exam, and there are no other lower division courses available in Art History this semester. I've done a lot so far, even through this summer, and I think I'll be ready come this fall. Shooting for Harvard Grad in the field in four years. It's really make or break~ if I excel, then some professors might start noticing once I declare major & good things will follow. If I don't, then it's gonna sting my GPA and might hurt chances to get departmental honors. But then again, if I don't make it through that class, how in the world will I expect to get admitted into the top graduate schools? Going to take minimum course units this fall to accomodate for that class- hope all goes well. =)</p>
<p>You've gotta stand out, somehow, at Berkeley. =/</p>
<p>TTG</p>
<p>ttgiang: Are you a Art History major? When I went to Cal for OHP, they had a Rubens exhibit at their museum. What is your field of interest--Baroque, Renaissance, Rococo (gag), Abstract Expressionism, Impressionism, Bauhaus, etc?</p>
<p>eiffelguy87~
Well, I will be a History of Art major, and I have all the intention in the world to pursue the subject through graduate school. I went to visit Berkeley towards the end of April, but the exhibition had not opened yet. I went to CalSO, but I fell off the top bunk of one of the triples (was trying it out) witihin five minutes of my arrival and since I was screaming in pain the whole weekened~ I didn't get the opportunity to see it. Poo, when does it end, by the way? I haven't quite decided on what my concentration will be, but I'm fairly certain something from 18th century on. Some topics that I have already become interested in are American arts, Neoclassicism in 19th C. France, and perhaps even Architecture and Sculpture; it's all good. If you want to see some of my favorite pieces, click on the link (if it doesn't work, cut and paste and enter- haha, a little work doesn't hurt). </p>
<p>Are you, by any chance, interested in Art History, too? Primary major, second major, minor? It's a whole lot of fun and supremely interesting! Plus, as you have read in another thread, the chicks are all in the humanities, baby. Wheeeee...! haha (end of post)</p>
<p>TTG</p>
<p>TTG, I didn't know Harvard had a good art history graduate program. Is that masters or phd?</p>
<p>GentlemenandScholar~
PhD. If you happen to look at the credentials of most college Art History professors at top universities, they usually hail from predictable places- Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, NYU, Cambridge and, of course, BERKELEY (#3, behind the NY schools)! Because Art History is my field of interest, I'm particularly aware of the PhD preferences colleges seemingly have in hiring their AH professors. Is this just a phenomenon for Art History, or is it extended to other majors, or the whole professorial (<-- is that a word?) teaching scene in general?! There is very little deviation from this core group of schools; once in a while you'll see a professor from UChicago or Stanfurd tossed into the mix, but it's not common (remember, this is restricted to the top schools and, more in particular, the schools I applied to in this year's application rounds). So, for placement purposes, Harvard PhD makes sense in terms of pursuing a career as a professor, as well as other pursuits in the field. I think their Art History PhD, like some of the others that I've seen, encompasses the Master's requirements in the first two years (PhD is seven years for AH) and while I'm fairly certain a Master's certificate isn't granted (I believe either Columbia or NYU grants that status), it's still all good. The resources and opportunities on campus and, in and around Boston, are tremendous for DOCTORAL studies in Art History (need I remind Harvard undergrad sucks?). </p>
<p>TTG</p>
<p>Cool, sounds good.</p>
<p>TTG: I took AP Art History and I've come to appreciate art and I enjoy learning about it. But I have no interest in pursuing a major or minor in Art History. My passions lie in political science and rhetoric.</p>
<p>SO.. I need advice! (: </p>
<p>I'm currently signed up for Psych 1 and a freshman seminar on reading (history of art, to be specific). I'm planning on signing up for Gender & Woman's Studies 10, Poli Sci 2, and MAYBE either Education 30AC or Classics 10A. This is because I won't have enough credits (or BARELY).</p>
<p>Does this sound like a sh-tload of reading to you? I personally am planning on having a GREAT time in college, as well as working hard, but I don't want to kill myself during my first semester. (And definitely, no, I am not part of the CC geniuses group. Pretty normal/average.) </p>
<p>I want to major in either Psych, Sociology, or something along those lines. I also want to get into grad school- law school, to be specific. Therefore, heck no am I going to get put on probation or whatnot. HELP please! This schedule business is driving me insane- I don't know what to expect and am scared that I will mess up my first semester. </p>
<p>(and I HATE math/science. Don't even try. And yes, I know that psych requires science- we'll work that out after I take my psych class.) </p>
<p>Thanks~~~</p>