Posted 29 April 2008 - 04:01 PM
so far my advisor has told me NOTHING, so ionno wat it'll be like for respective majors, but students are just supposed to know wat classes to take. the way to know is growl.ucr.edu, go to "degree check", put in your major, and then it'll give u a list of classes that YOU need to take to get that degree. like it shows wat classes you still have to take tp get that degree you checked for.
for call numbers... for my class they gave us a booklet with information on open classes not quite up to date but they said it was pretty recent (yeah, right) and let us go, so basically you can get classes from that booklet or when theyre making you sign up for classes you can just go to classes.ucr.edu then (recommended)
here's the math for classes:
1. to be a full time student, thus to receive financial aid you must take a minimum of 12 units.
2. max units allowed is 20 units, if you want to take more, then you have to get approval from your college
3. each class on AVERAGE is worth 4 units. math is 4, english is 4, bio is 4, etc. chem (just a year ago) was changed to 5 units
4. to graduate you must get 180 units so if you want to graduate in 4 years, you must get 45 units a year, or 15 units per quarter.
5. there's something called BREATH courses that you MUST take to graduate. apparently breath courses are different for each college but the same to majors in the same college. breath courses are courses that are not in your major i.e. history english math chemistry physics are all breath courses for CNAS
reason i'm saying to take 3 classes is because incoming freshmen MUST have time to adjust and socialize. college is MUCHO different from high school, so just take 3 easy classes for the first year or at least first quarter. the easy classes include (that i know of): Economy 2 or 3, i took econ2 and passed with an A and the only studying i did was going to every lecture and 1 hour before the final, music 8, a bit more studying than econ but i still got an A- for minimal effort, earthquake county or country, it was REALLY easy, history 20, some people say history 20 is the easiest history class but ionno, so far it's not that bad just a lot of reading, can't really think of anything else but those were pretty easy
you CAN take like 5 classes your first quarter, 4 units each but it's gonna be HARD, max classes i've ever taken is 4, it's not that hard but i couldn't play around as much like i did with 3, so 5 classes should be possible but u won't be having a lot of fun or making friends (which you should do for the first year, they'll be the ones you hang out with for the rest of college).
reason i won't just give off a list to take like "take these 3 classes, blah blah blah" is mainly because i dun wanna be responsible for a bad class schedule u might get >_< but seriously, don't go into orientation with the mindset of exactly 3 classes, have like 5 or 6 classes in mind then choose the 3 that fit a schdule that you like. like a bad schedule would be back to back classes, 9-10 am 10-11 am 12-1pm 1-2pm 2-5pm, like THAT is a bad schedule, u won't learn much by the end of the day and remember, you want an hour break to eat or something. another bad schedule would be 7-8 am then 8-9 pm night class, u have this HUGE gap, so you go to campus, come BACK, waste the day, then go to late class. and trust me, usually you wanna ditch late night classes.
if there MUST be a schedule, i recommend: math (whatever math u place into), english, and then history. that's a pretty decent schedule. each person has their own wants tho, r u the type that wants to finish your major first then take it easy with breath courses later in college or do you wanna get all the breath courses out of the way then concentrate on your major later?
on foreign language... i don't know, i've yet to take foreign language, i'm planning on taking it the coming year but from what i know from my friends, taking 1 foreign language is hard because like high shcool, it's a lot of memorizing vocab which i personally suck at.
o yeah on a side note, classes are given preference in this order: more units first. that's it. you get assigned a day to sign up for classes during the year right? that day corresponds to how many units you have. so basically seniors sign up first, juniors, sophmores then freshmen. this is because of units, senior have like 160 units, juniors like 110 etc. etc. i do not know where orientation preferance gets into this but earlier orientation people DO sign up before OTHER orientations. like if you have orientation on the 5th, you sign up ahead of the hundreds of other incoming students on the 7th 9th 11th 13th etc. (obviously i dont' know when orientation is) on my orientation day i wanted to sign up for history but ALL the history classes were full since it's a class everyone wants, how it's a class incoming students who don't know any classes yet all want i don't know, but everyone wants history. plus there are multiple classes, like there's 10 or 20 english classes, you obviously don't want a 7 am english class but if you go to a late orientation that might be the only one open. again the first 2 weeks of school you can change your schedule but i prefer having a good schedule straight from the beginning.
what makes me really mad is that i sent in other requested documents earlier this month and here they are asking me for more requested documents like last minute. i guess this is my fault though for not sending in the first batch of requested documents like 2 months ago when i was still undecided.
