leparfait

Why do you not recommend this? I can't choose if I have a seminar first or second semester, and I thought it'd be a good chance to get phil/theo out of the way by taking it as a seminar. (Then I will have more room in my schedule.)

BPKO43

Having not taken philo or theo as my seminar I can't say too much, but it is nice to be able to hear from friends whether a teacher is good/what type of work is required/is the course interesting before choosing a theo/philo seminar, thus why you might not want to take it first semester. Also, you might want to load up on the college reqs. your first year(s) and then have space to fulfill uni reqs. as you see fit in later years

Toclafane

Most of the students I've talked to in my time at ND agree that it is best to get the university requirements such as theo/philo out of the way as early as possible. Every year, you will get a better DART (class registration) time slot. Most of the students I've spoken with say that it is a much better use of your better registration time slot to get into classes that you really want to take and fill up quickly rather than the theo/philo classes that have been available to you since freshman year.

zfzxzzza

ok...if you take a theo seminar...it counts as either a seminar or a theo requirement, but not as both
one course can only satisfy one requirement

hawkswim09

This comes right out of the 2009 Bulletin of Information: "Currently, these courses (seminars) are offered by departments within the College of Arts and Letters and will satisfy the relevant University requirements in history, literature, fine arts, social science, or the first course of the philosophy or theology requirement."

So, this is an exception to that rule.

Toclafane

zfzxzzza: Er...no. A theo seminar also counts as one of the two required theo classes.

notre dame AL

You can only take one seminar course...that may be what the confusion is about. You can take theo or philo as a seminar and it does count as one of the two required theo and philo courses you need.

leparfait

Thanks everyone I got my official schedule today. (I did get a Phil seminar)

I do have one question though. I manually sent in my AP scores earlier this month, and got a 5 on AP Calc AB. I think it gets me out of Calc I, but I don't think they got it in time because I am in Calc I. Since there is a Calc II at the same time, is that an easy switch? And do you guys recommend testing out of classes? I am afraid I forget everything, so maybe Calc I would be better anyways :P I am a biochem major.

Thanks for any info!!

Irish45221

They must not have received the score in time. It is definitely an easy switch and I would recommend you start at Calc II. The first quarter or so of Calc II is Calc I review. As far as testing out goes I would suggest you test out of something that is not in any way associated with your major or future aspirations/grad school.

leparfait

Good point! I'm not a math major, so I wouldn't mind getting out of it. Glad to hear there's some review... thanks for the advice

shellzie2006

Its an easy switch and I think you should opt out of Calc I, then you'll only have to take 2 semesters of math. Since biochem has a math level requirement (through the equivalent of calc III- now taken as Math Methods for chem majors) instead of a # of classes requirement, it makes sense to skip out of the lower levels.